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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:09:26 +0100
From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] siphash: add cryptographically secure PRF
Hi David,
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 6:06 PM, David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com> wrote:
> A 32bit hash would also remove all the issues about the alignment
> of IP addresses (etc) on 64bit systems.
The current replacements of md5_transform with siphash in the v6 patch
series will continue to use the original siphash, since the 128-bit
key is rather important for these kinds of secrets. Additionally,
64-bit siphash is already faster than the md5_transform that it
replaces. So the alignment concerns (now, non-issues; problems have
been solved, I believe) still remain.
Jason
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