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by WallWextra 2661 days ago
The small key performance is very nice. It would be good to have more written about this new hash function, and less misinformed rant about siphash.
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For someone who isn't following the hashing function 'scene', what's misinformed about this rant?
Most of his arguments simply do not apply to the relevant use case and attacks. The only one that does, the claim that the seed is recoverable, is not an argument at all but a vague, unsubstantiated claim.
His arguments on siphash are pretty practical, not sure what did you find misinformed there.
From the readme: "SipHash is not secure enough for security purposes"

There's been nothing published to that effect, even though he has claimed for years that he can recover bits from the seed.