Re: Randomize hash-function in php

On 17/03/12 23:17, Simon Schick wrote:

Hi, All I just came around that talk a couple of days ago .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Cq3CLI6H8 I don't know much about hash-maps and internal php-stuff at all, but they say that the fix provided in 5.3.9 (and 5.4.0) is more a work-around than a fix ... Would it be an option to provide a real fix in PHP 6.0? They got the feedback that this will take some time and is not trivial, but we have a good time before PHP6 and can also break backwards compatibility for php-plugins if really necessary. As they said in the movie, PHP seems to have the algorithm DJBX33A implemented as Ruby. So as they're so proud of the fix provided by the Ruby-Team, may we can use that for PHP as well :) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4815 This is not much because some attacker can do something, but what if you have a real-world-application that (for some reason) build up an array that just will blow up because of that? I haven't experienced that until now, but it's possible ... Bye Simon

Hi, Fairly new to this list so go easy :P.. Anyway I was looking at the hash function in PHP the other week, and was playing around with some different implementations. DJBX33A is fast, which I guess is why PHP uses it as it is hit so many times in the execution. However I tried and benchmarked a few different algorithms, I didn't try the patch you mentioned, however the only algorithm that came anywhere close to matching the DJBX33A method is Paul Hseih's Super Fast Hash algorithm: http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/hash.html I benchmarked the DJBX33A against Hseih's algorithm and compared the results using an Intel x86 architecture and an AMD 64 machine and both algorithms performed similarly. The benchmarks weren't robust as they were only quick, 'let's hack and see' tests. Would be interesting if anyone else has had a go. If I can find it I'll post a patch so you could? Cheers Sam