[openssl-dev] use SIPhash for OPENSSL_LH_strhash?

[Richard Levitte]

In message <001901d26bed$d3746ed0$7a5d4c70$@sales at free.fr> on Wed, 11 Jan 2017 10:33:53 +0100, "Michel" <michel.sales at free.fr> said:

michel.sales> And what about using FNV or CityHash ?
michel.sales> 
michel.sales> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fowler%E2%80%93Noll%E2%80%93Vo_hash_function

I'm a little worried about the zero hash value issue mentioned here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fowler%E2%80%93Noll%E2%80%93Vo_hash_function#Non-cryptographic_hash

michel.sales> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityHash

Google has replaced that with FarmHash according to that page...

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