On 07/02/2010 20:07, Joerg Moellenkamp wrote:
Hello,
while writing some articles about dedup, hashes and ZFS for my blog, i
asked myself: When fletcher4 is fast, but collision prone and sha256 is
slower, but relatively secure, wouldn't it be reasonable to integrate
Skein (http://www.schneier.com/skein.pdf) into ZFS to yield faster
checksumming as well as a reduced probability of false positive
deduplications due to hash collisions?
If Skein passes the cryptanlaysis for the SHA3 competition being run by
NIST and is the winner of that competition or is otherwise considered
sounds by the crypto community then yes until then I think it is
premature to do so as it is a very new algorithm.
--
Darren J Moffat
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