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Message-ID: <ce3895ee0a3857bd7bd358fbac2744d9@smtp.hushmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 14:11:50 +0200
From: magnum <magnumripper@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Birthday paradox (Bloom filter, Perfect hash tables)

On 2023-04-19 23:47, magnum wrote:
> On 2023-04-18 23:12, Solar Designer wrote:
>> You could then experiment with lookup count, as it would be untangled
>> from the size.
> 
> With my debug/research patches I could already experiment freely with 
> sizes and lookup counts so this didn't really change anything.

Your point didn't fully hit me until now:  With some fixes to the 
surrounding code I would be able to use a k of for example 3 or 5 as 
opposed to log2 multiples.  I think I'll explore that path, before 
giving this up and try something more complicated.

magnum

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