Subject: Re: RFC: Established connections hash function

From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:29:11 +0300

On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 08:26:58AM -0400, [email-masked] ([email-masked]) wrote:
> > Result with jenkins:
> > 1 23880
> > 2 12108
> > 3 4040
> > 4 1019
> > 5 200
> > 6 30
> > 7 8
> > 8 1
> > 
> > Xor:
> > 1 65536
> 
> Precisely.  This means that the Xor hash SUCKS, because its output is conspicuously
> non-random.

XOR hash was specially designed for network environment, so it has the
ever best result (in this scenario, but it can be too easily controlled by attacker). 
It is not general purpose hash.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov