Re: [PATCH 0/3] add %pX specifier

From: Jason A. Donenfeld
Date: Wed Oct 11 2017 - 16:11:49 EST


Hi Linus,

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 1:15 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> (NOTE! Using jhash here is not acceptable, since it's not
> cryptographically safe, but think of it as an example of a hash that
> takes 32-bit input).

Ahh, yes, I should have continued to read the thread before replying
my first reply.

Indeed the correct functions to use would be siphash_1u32 or
siphash_1u64, depending. Depending on the popularity of that, we might
even consider making a siphash_1ulong helper, I suppose.

Jason