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Fast strong hash functions: SipHash/HighwayHash

15 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 3 stories, 12 comments · first 2016-03-02 · latest 2024-10-03

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  1. …when transmitting data in space and time), so "frozen" hash functions give these guarantees e.g. https://github.com/google/highwayhash#versioning-and-stabili... . Yes it can be annoying when tests are flaky, but the unit testing/matcher…
    comment by chickenbig · 2024-10-03 · in Hash Ordering and Hyrum's Law
  2. …crc32c , just found out google added alternative highwayhash recommends and claims it is faster. https://github.com/google/highwayhash
  3. Google made faster Siphash variants, and also HighwayHash that's much faster. https://github.com/google/highwayhash
    comment by Comevius · 2021-10-29 · in Meow Hash (2018)
  4. …I was looking at the GitHub repo posted below and saw only claims of "strong" collision resistance: https://github.com/google/highwayhash Unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with the details of the collision resistance properties of the…
  5. …for real world security attacks. Compare https://github.com/rurban/smhasher and my complaints https://github.com/google/highwayhash/issues/28
  6. …hash function, with security guarantees similar to SipHash but about 5x faster. Here's more info: https://github.com/google/highwayhash
  7. …from twin 32x32=64 muls across 128-bit vectors [or vector halves, on AVX2]. See ZipperMerge in https://github.com/google/highwayhash/blob/master/highwayhas... .
  8. The critique. There's more rambling by (I think) the same author here: https://github.com/google/highwayhash/issues/28 His arguments are a little inconsistent and ambiguous, which suggests either a misunderstanding, perhaps a touch of…
  9. I didn't know much about this argument so I looked it up and funny enough it's you arguing here too: https://github.com/google/highwayhash/issues/28 Still trying to wrap my head around exactly what is being argued... but it's starting to…
    comment by jchw · 2019-03-11 · in New fastest portable hash: wyhash
  10. …conditions? The writings of those who try to protect from flooding attacks are more specific, e.g.: https://github.com/google/highwayhash "The author of SipHash has published C++ programs to generate" "'universal (key-independent)…
  11. …bit rot protection that is currently relying on the Blake2b algorithm to HighwayHash. Google repo: https://github.com/google/highwayhash code repo: https://github.com/minio/highwayhash
  12. There was a recent effort by Google to speed up SipHash, it's called HighwayHash: https://github.com/google/highwayhash - it includes a compatible, optimized SipHash implementation (1.5x speedup), a variation on that that is not compatible…
    comment by lorenzhs · 2016-03-04 · in Announcing Rust 1.7