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Author methane
Recipients christian.heimes, lemburg, methane, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2017-02-01.12:41:32
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Py_HASH_CUTOFF uses different secret from siphash already.
The problem is the secret doesn't affects to collision at all.

Attacker can produce large number of collision, without knowing the secret.

BTW, we have FNV already.  Let's survey about FNV-1 short string collisions.
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2017-02-01 12:41:33methanesetrecipients: + methane, lemburg, rhettinger, christian.heimes, serhiy.storchaka
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