netdev - RE: [PATCH v3 1/3] siphash: add cryptographically secure hashtable function

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Date:   Thu, 15 Dec 2016 10:22:41 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Linus Torvalds' <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
CC:     Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" 
        <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jean-Philippe Aumasson <jeanphilippe.aumasson@...il.com>,
        "Daniel J . Bernstein" <djb@...yp.to>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 1/3] siphash: add cryptographically secure hashtable
 function

From: Linus Torvalds
> Sent: 15 December 2016 00:11
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@...c4.com> wrote:
> >
> > Or does your reasonable dislike of "word" still allow for the use of
> > dword and qword, so that the current function names of:
> 
> dword really is confusing to people.
>
> If you have a MIPS background, it means 64 bits. While to people with
> Windows programming backgrounds it means 32 bits.

Guess what a DWORD_PTR is on 64bit windows ...
(it is an integer type).

	David