Re: Where exactly will arch_fast_hash be used

[Herbert Xu]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 08:23:05AM -0500, George Spelvin wrote:
>
> Okay, I'm confused.  *What* scheme?  The arch_fast_hash interface doesn't
> have any provision for a secret.  Because there's no point to having one;

It does actually, in the form of the seed parameter.  That's why
it's so bad: it pretends to be a semi-secure hash function that
people will use in hash tables.

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