On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 08:23:05AM -0500, George Spelvin wrote: > > Okay, I'm confused. *What* scheme? The arch_fast_hash interface doesn't > have any provision for a secret. Because there's no point to having one;
It does actually, in the form of the seed parameter. That's why it's so bad: it pretends to be a semi-secure hash function that people will use in hash tables. 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
