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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 22:11:40 +0200
From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] add %pX specifier
Hi Linus,
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 1:15 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> (NOTE! Using jhash here is not acceptable, since it's not
> cryptographically safe, but think of it as an example of a hash that
> takes 32-bit input).
Ahh, yes, I should have continued to read the thread before replying
my first reply.
Indeed the correct functions to use would be siphash_1u32 or
siphash_1u64, depending. Depending on the popularity of that, we might
even consider making a siphash_1ulong helper, I suppose.
Jason
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