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only a vulnerability in djbx33a?

only a vulnerability in djbx33a?

Posted Jan 16, 2012 12:28 UTC (Mon) by wingo (subscriber, #26929)
Parent article: Denial of service via hash collisions

What is the feasibility of this attack on other standard hash functions, I wonder?

Guile for example (on its master branch) uses Bob Jenkin's lookup3:

http://burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/index.html#lookup


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only a vulnerability in djbx33a?

Posted Jan 17, 2012 2:46 UTC (Tue) by wahern (subscriber, #37304) [Link]

Broken for static initialization vectors, at least:

http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/blog/2007/03/breaking_sup...

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