On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 04:24:18PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > > So while I agree that optimizing the hash is a good idea. I don't believe > it is a bottle-neck at this point. Though I could be convinced otherwise if > long collision chains could be constructed with relatively few flows. > Something I had not considered until I rad your email just now.
It's not an optimisation issue, but a security one. If you leave a hash like this with a constant seed, an attacker would have an infinite amount of time to find collisions. Rehashing isn't all that difficult. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
