On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 12:18:25AM -0600, Brian F. G. Bidulock ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Evgeniy,
>
> On Thu, 01 Jun 2006, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> >
> > for (i=0; i<hash_size*iter_num; ++i) {
> > saddr = num2ip(get_random_byte(), get_random_byte(),
> > get_random_byte(), get_random_byte());
> > sport = get_random_word();
>
> You still have a problem: you cannot use a pseudo-random number
> generator to generate the sample set as the pseudo-random number
> generator function itself can interact with the hash.
>
> Try iterating through all 2**48 values or at least a sizeable
> representative subset.
Since pseudo-randomness affects both folded and not folded hash
distribution, it can not end up in different results.
You are right that having test with 2^48 values is really interesting,
but it will take ages on my test machine :)
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
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