flow_hash.h File Reference

hash function for FLOW keys More...

#include "sfhashfcn.h"
#include "flow.h"

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Functions
unsigned	flowkey_hashfcn1 (SFHASHFCN *p, unsigned char *d, int n)
unsigned	flowkey_hashfcn2 (SFHASHFCN *p, unsigned char *d, int n)

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Detailed Description

hash function for FLOW keys

Author:

Chris Green <cmg@sourcefire.com>

Date:

Thu Jun 19 11:42:49 2003

We can save a bit of work in the hash stage by having a hash function that understands FLOWS better than hash(sizeof(FLOWKEY))

Definition in file flow_hash.h.

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Function Documentation

unsigned flowkey_hashfcn1 (  SFHASHFCN *  p, unsigned char *  d, int  n )

hash function that implements sfhashfcn for only the portions a Flowkey that are relevant Parameters: p  d  n  Returns: the hash Definition at line 30 of file flow_hash.c. References _SFHASHFCN::hardener, _FLOWKEY::init_address, _FLOWKEY::init_port, _FLOWKEY::protocol, _FLOWKEY::resp_address, _FLOWKEY::resp_port, _SFHASHFCN::scale, and _SFHASHFCN::seed. Referenced by flowcache_init().

unsigned flowkey_hashfcn2 (  SFHASHFCN *  p, unsigned char *  d, int  n )

One that performs less calculations because it doesn't treat each byte of the entity as unique. This is probably less resistant to collisions but the hardener stages should be randomly chosen so that complexity attacks shouldn't succeed without a lot of prior knowledge Parameters: p  d  n  Returns: the hash Definition at line 82 of file flow_hash.c. References _SFHASHFCN::hardener, _FLOWKEY::init_address, _FLOWKEY::init_port, _FLOWKEY::protocol, _FLOWKEY::resp_address, _FLOWKEY::resp_port, _SFHASHFCN::scale, and _SFHASHFCN::seed. Referenced by flowcache_init().

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