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From: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:22:55 -0700

> We use this value for steering, and could use it for other uses like
> connection lookup.

For security reasons we absolutely cannot use it for that purpose,
please stop claiming this.

Any hash function which an attacker can reproduce is attackable.