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SipHash
Reference implementation of SipHash, a family of pseudorandom functions optimized for speed on short messages.
SipHash was designed as a mitigation to hash-flooding DoS attacks. It is now used in the hash tables implementation of Python, Ruby, Perl 5, etc.
SipHash was designed by Jean-Philippe Aumasson and Daniel J. Bernstein.
Usage
Running
make
will build sanity checks (test vectors) for SipHash-2-4, the default version of SipHash:
./siphash24_test
verifies 64 test vectors, and
./siphash24_test_debug
does the same and prints intermediate values.
The code can be adapted to implement SipHash-c-d, the version of SipHash with c compression rounds and d finalization rounds, by tweaking the lines
#define cROUNDS 2
#define dROUNDS 4
Intellectual property
The SipHash reference code is released under CC0 license, a public domain-like licence.
We aren't aware of any patents or patent applications relevant to SipHash, and we aren't planning to apply for any.
References
The SipHash page includes
- a list of third-party implementations and modules
- a list of projects using SipHash
- references to cryptanalysis results