Lennart Regebro writes:
 > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 06:02, Paul McMillan <p...@mcmillan.ws> wrote:
 > >> We may use a different salt per dictionary.
 > >
 > > If we're willing to re-hash everything on a per-dictionary basis. That
 > > doesn't seem reasonable given our existing usage.
 > 
 > Well, if we get crazy amounts of collisions, re-hashing with a new
 > salt to get rid of those collisions seems quite reasonable to me...

But doesn't the whole idea of a hash table fall flat on its face if
you need to worry about crazy amounts of collisions (outside of
deliberate attacks)?

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