Show HN: Beamsplitter – a new possibly universal hash

Re:Show HN: Beamsplitter – a new possibly universal hash by remcob on Thursday May 07, 2020 @11:43AM (#23104289)

I'm confused. Supercop is a benchmark for cryptographic hash functions, but SMHasher is a test for non-cryptographic hash functions. The use cases list cryptography, but also universal hash functions which are generally not crypto-grade. It compares itself to the SHA hashes, but only has 64 bit output.

Is Beamsplitter supposed to be cryptography grade or not?

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Re:Show HN: Beamsplitter – a new possibly universal hash by hackcasual on Thursday May 07, 2020 @03:51PM (#23107403)

It's not, at least not now it seems. It's just seeing if you can use an S-box design to create a "universal" hash.

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Re:Show HN: Beamsplitter – a new possibly universal hash by rurban on Saturday May 09, 2020 @09:51AM (#23124674)

No. It's a quality hash, like crypto hashes, but of those one of the slowest ones. Extremely slow, like Siphash. But it's useful for Javascript, I guess.

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