Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Jul 2002 10:15:01 -0400 | From | jlnance@intrex ... | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: Shrinking ext3 directories |
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On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 06:48:45AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > behaviour under certain application workloads. With the half-md4, at > > least we can expect decent worst-case behaviour unless we're under > > active attack (ie. only maliscious apps get hurt). > > OK, anti-hash-attack is on the list of things to do, and it's fairly > clear how to go about it:
Is it really worth the trouble and complexity to do anti-hash-attack? What is the worst that could happen if someone managed to create a bunch of files that hashed to the same value?
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