Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:17:27 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSD license compatible hash algorithm?
Message-ID:  <20071229031727.GX40785@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1896C9EB-E6B3-4B7D-B354-7DE0774D685C@u.washington.edu>
References:  <5950EE0C-383D-4D6B-9991-A0DEABD2ADE4@u.washington.edu> <20071228003716.GB48997@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <B8D4C3C6-B867-4550-9F17-4DC6930D10E2@u.washington.edu> <fl2qiv$qoh$1@ger.gmane.org> <1896C9EB-E6B3-4B7D-B354-7DE0774D685C@u.washington.edu>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

--jRdC2OsRnuV8iIl8
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 06:32:21PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>Anyhow, thanks for the ideas I really do appreciate it. Overall, I think I=
=20
>will stick with BDB's hash(3) (seems less data collision prone, as was=20
>pointed out earlier, and less of a security risk) as I wasn't aware of the=
=20
>NULL argument, no filename 'clause' with dbopen(3).

Other option might be the Fowler/Noll/Vo Hash in <sys/fnv_hash.h>

--=20
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.

--jRdC2OsRnuV8iIl8
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQFHdbxH/opHv/APuIcRAtptAKCOxJkK84XypxHokJZ7e03VRNWLJwCgjESk
Fey0pFhc0sVAJkcJjcDkX44=
=Mf5F
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--jRdC2OsRnuV8iIl8--



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20071229031727.GX40785>