On 12/29/2011 4:31 PM, Christian Heimes wrote:
The hash randomization idea adds a salt to throw the attacker of course.
Instead of
position = hash& mask
it's now
hash = salt + hash
As I understood the talk (actually, the bit of Perl interpreter C code
shown), the randomization is to change hash(s) to hash(salt+s) so that
the salt is completely mixed into the hash from the beginning, rather
than just tacked on at the end.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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