Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: Shrinking ext3 directories

jlnance
2002-07-04T14:06:54Z

On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 06:48:45AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > behaviour under certain application workloads. With the half-md4, at
> > least we can expect decent worst-case behaviour unless we're under
> > active attack (ie. only maliscious apps get hurt).
>
> OK, anti-hash-attack is on the list of things to do, and it's fairly
> clear how to go about it:

Is it really worth the trouble and complexity to do anti-hash-attack?
What is the worst that could happen if someone managed to create a bunch
of files that hashed to the same value?

Jim