Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v7 3/6] random: use SipHash in place of MD5

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On 22.12.2016 14:10, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa
> <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> following up on what appears to be a random subject: ;)
>>
>> IIRC, ext4 code by default still uses half_md4 for hashing of filenames
>> in the htree. siphash seems to fit this use case pretty good.
> 
> I saw this too. I'll try to address it in v8 of this series.

This change would need a new version of the ext4 super block, because
you should not change existing file systems.


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