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

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Mon Jan 2 16🔞41 CET 2012


Am 02.01.2012 06:55, schrieb Paul McMillan:

I think Ruby uses FNV-1 with a salt, making it less vulnerable to this. FNV is otherwise similar to our existing hash function.

For the record, cryptographically strong hash functions are in the neighborhood of 400% slower than our existing hash function.

I've pushed a new patch http://hg.python.org/features/randomhash/rev/0a65d2462e0c

The changeset adds the murmur3 hash algorithm with some minor changes, for example more random seeds. At first I was worried that murmur might be slower than our old hash algorithm. But in fact it seems to be faster!

Pybench 10 rounds on my Core2 Duo 2.60:

py3k: 3.230 sec randomahash: 3.182 sec

Christian



More information about the Python-Dev mailing list