Cracking Perl's Old Hash Function
By Yves Orton (demerphq) from AmsterdamX.pm
Date: Saturday, 8 November 2014 11:30
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language:
Tags: hash security
I will demonstrate an attack on Perl's old hash function, and show why hashes are randomized as they are in 5.18 and later. And I will talk about whether we will change the hash function we use in the future, and how much we should care about all of this anyway.
Attended by: Yves Orton (demerphq), Neil Bowers (NEILB), Peter Sergeant (pete), Tom Hukins, David Lowe, Daniel Collins (solemnwarning), Lukas Mai (mauke), James Raspass (Raz), Martin Brooks (SlayerXP), Aaron Crane (arc), John Harrison (JohnGH), Anatolie Mazur (Mask), Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker (ilmari),
