netdev - Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: HalfSipHash Acceptable Usage

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Date:   Wed, 21 Dec 2016 23:29:12 +0100
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
        "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        George Spelvin <linux@...encehorizons.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, Jason <Jason@...c4.com>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>,
        "Daniel J . Bernstein" <djb@...yp.to>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>,
        Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
        Jean-Philippe Aumasson <jeanphilippe.aumasson@...il.com>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: HalfSipHash Acceptable Usage

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 11:27 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> And "with enough registers" includes ARM and MIPS, right?  So the only
> real problem is 32-bit x86, and you're right, at that point, only
> people who might care are people who are using a space-radiation
> hardened 386 --- and they're not likely to be doing high throughput
> TCP connections.  :-)

Plus the benchmark was bogus anyway, and when I built a more specific
harness -- actually comparing the TCP sequence number functions --
SipHash was faster than MD5, even on register starved x86. So I think
we're fine and this chapter of the discussion can come to a close, in
order to move on to more interesting things.