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A hash-based DOS attack on Btrfs

A hash-based DOS attack on Btrfs

Posted Dec 15, 2012 2:46 UTC (Sat) by wahern (subscriber, #37304)
In reply to: A hash-based DOS attack on Btrfs by cyanit
Parent article: A hash-based DoS attack on Btrfs

But AES-NI isn't the complete algorithm. Siphash numbers are for the complete operation, including compression and output. You could probably cobble something basic together with the internal AES mixer (what AES-NI optimizes), but then you've just invented your own algorithm with unknown characteristics, all in an attempt to gain negligible performance improvements. That sort of premature optimization is what causes these sorts of bugs in the first place.


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