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HashMap uses SipHash. To call it cryptographically secure is not a clear way of summarizing what it provides. See Wikipedia for more info. Blurb: > It was desi
by kzrdude 3y ago
HashMap uses SipHash. To call it cryptographically secure is not a clear way of summarizing what it provides. See Wikipedia for more info. Blurb:
> It was designed to be efficient even for short inputs, with performance comparable to non-cryptographic hash functions, such as CityHash, this can be used to prevent denial-of-service attacks against hash tables ("hash flooding") [...]
- Traubenfuchs 3y ago> "hash flooding" I did not know this was a thing. What a massive amount of engineering effort is being wasted on protecting against outlandish attacks!