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- o Minor features:
- - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
- SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
- feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
- client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
- number of data entries all calculated to be stored at the same
- hash table position, thereby degrading hash table
- performance. With this feature, hash table positions are derived
- from a randomized cryptographic key using SipHash-2-4, and an
- attacker cannot predict which entries will collide.
- Closes ticket 4900.
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