On 2/20/07, Michael K. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Correct. That's called a "weak hash", and Jenkins is known to be a thoroughly weak hash. That's why you never, ever use it without a salt, and you don't let an attacker inspect the hash output either.
Weak in a cryptographic sense, of course. Excellent avalanche behavior, though, which is what you care about in a salted hash. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table I know nothing about data structures and algorithms except what I read on the Internet. But you'd be amazed what's on the Internet. Cheers, - Michael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
