-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ivan Voras wrote: > On 28/12/2007, Aryeh M. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Matter of fact this weakness is the main avenue of attack on >> cryptographic hashes see http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/199.pdf A >> slightly off topic side note NIST is having a contest to attempt >> to mitigate these issues in "SHA-3" see: >> http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/sha-3/index.html. Currently >> there only 4 teams that have expressed interest in entering >> perhaps this will get more interest. > > All of this is true but it's not very useful for hash tables > (crypto-strength hash functions are generally too slow for the > purpose) :) > Depends on the size of the table... I work with a algrothem that regularly has tables between 2^32 and 2^64 buckets (even though the we use a slightly different terminology)
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