Re: [zfs-discuss] Different Hash algorithm

2010-02-07 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 07/02/2010 20:07, Joerg Moellenkamp wrote: Hello, while writing some articles about dedup, hashes and ZFS for my blog, i asked myself: When fletcher4 is fast, but collision prone and sha256 is slower, but relatively secure, wouldn't it be reasonable to integrate Skein

Re: [zfs-discuss] Different Hash algorithm

2010-02-07 Thread David Magda
On Feb 7, 2010, at 15:10, Darren J Moffat wrote: On 07/02/2010 20:07, Joerg Moellenkamp wrote: Hello, while writing some articles about dedup, hashes and ZFS for my blog, i asked myself: When fletcher4 is fast, but collision prone and sha256 is slower, but relatively secure, wouldn't it

Re: [zfs-discuss] Different Hash algorithm

2010-02-07 Thread Khyron
Well, it's an attack, right? Neither Skein nor Threefish has been compromised. In fact, this is what you want to see - researchers attacking an algorithm which goes a long way toward furthering or proving the security of said algorithm. I think I agree with Darren overall, but this still looks