[issue23712] Experiment: Assume that exact unicode hashes are perfect discriminators

Donald Stufft report at bugs.python.org
Thu Mar 19 23:57:28 CET 2015


Donald Stufft added the comment:

I'm not sure what you mean by "Siphash isn't cryptographically secure". One of the key points of Siphash is that it *is* cryptographically secure. It has a smaller space than your typical hash function (MD5, SHA1, SHA2, etc) which means that collisions themselves are more likely, but the hash itself is cryptographically secure against pre-image attacks and it has collision resistance (collision resistance is different than just getting a collision).

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