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Message-ID: <ce3895ee0a3857bd7bd358fbac2744d9@smtp.hushmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 14:11:50 +0200
From: magnum <magnumripper@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Birthday paradox (Bloom filter, Perfect hash tables)
On 2023-04-19 23:47, magnum wrote:
> On 2023-04-18 23:12, Solar Designer wrote:
>> You could then experiment with lookup count, as it would be untangled
>> from the size.
>
> With my debug/research patches I could already experiment freely with
> sizes and lookup counts so this didn't really change anything.
Your point didn't fully hit me until now: With some fixes to the
surrounding code I would be able to use a k of for example 3 or 5 as
opposed to log2 multiples. I think I'll explore that path, before
giving this up and try something more complicated.
magnum
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