BSD license compatible hash algorithm?

Peter Jeremy peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
Fri Dec 28 21:51:36 PST 2007


On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 06:32:21PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>Anyhow, thanks for the ideas I really do appreciate it. Overall, I think I 
>will stick with BDB's hash(3) (seems less data collision prone, as was 
>pointed out earlier, and less of a security risk) as I wasn't aware of the 
>NULL argument, no filename 'clause' with dbopen(3).

Other option might be the Fowler/Noll/Vo Hash in <sys/fnv_hash.h>

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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