Re: [Caml-list] Hardening [Perl's] hash function further

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

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Am Montag, den 18.11.2013, 20:44 +0000 schrieb Richard W.M. Jones:
> The Perl community have found further attacks against their
> (already considered hardened) hash function.  This article
> explains the problems quite well:
> 
> http://blog.booking.com/hardening-perls-hash-function.html

Interesting read. I'm wondering which conclusions one should draw from
it. This article is more or less discussing cryptoattacks on an insecure
hash function, and the new versions of the functions are only "better"
but in no way safe (which you only get with crypto hashes or
dictionaries that don't allow collisions). This sounds for me like a
race between attackers and hash implementors.

Gerd
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