[Python-Dev] Hash collision security issue (now public) (original) (raw)

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Sun Jan 1 18:28:19 CET 2012


Am 01.01.2012 17:54, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:

I don't understand. FNV-1 multiplies the current running result with a prime and then xors it with the following byte. This is also what we do. (I'm assuming 1000003 is prime)

There must be a major difference somewhere inside the algorithm. The talk at the CCC conference in Berlin mentions that Ruby 1.9 is not vulnerable to meet-in-the-middle attacks and Ruby 1.9 uses FNV. The C code of FNV is more complex than our code, too.

Christian



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