SipHash VS cityhash

Compare SipHash vs cityhash and see what are their differences.

SipHash

High-speed secure pseudorandom function for short messages (by veorq)

cityhash

Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/cityhash (by google)
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SipHash cityhash
3 2
593 1,054
- 1.2%
1.4 0.0
about 1 year ago almost 2 years ago
C Shell
Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal MIT License
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SipHash

Posts with mentions or reviews of SipHash. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-16.
  • does math.randomseed() let you use letters, or only numbers?
    1 project | /r/lua | 26 May 2022
    Very fast with security guarantees. These are faster than full cryptographic hashes and fulfill some but not all of the security guarantees. That's not to say that they're weaker, but that they're designed for certain usecases where they are perfectly adequate and others where they fail miserably. Example: SipHash2-4 https://github.com/veorq/SipHash
  • Implementing Hash Tables in C
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Oct 2021
    Note that if you have untrusted input, you may want to use a defensive option for hashing involving a private key, such as SipHash[1]. Otherwise, an attacker who knows your hash functions can just pre-generate a large number of colliding elements and reduce your hash function to a linked list; given enough attacker-controlled elements, this can effectively amount to a DoS attack[2].

    [1] https://github.com/veorq/SipHash

    [2] https://www.aumasson.jp/siphash/siphashdos_29c3_slides.pdf

  • Getting unique items from a list. Why do they come out in a random order?
    1 project | /r/learnpython | 17 Aug 2021
    Sets are internally ordered by items' hash (rather, the first few bits of it, depending on the # of elements in the set), and strings are hashed with a pseudorandom algorithm.

cityhash

Posts with mentions or reviews of cityhash. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-02.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SipHash and cityhash you can also consider the following projects:

OpenSSL - TLS/SSL and crypto library

xxHash - Extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm

Lua - Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.

BLAKE3 - the official Rust and C implementations of the BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function

OpenSSL - Swift OpenSSL for OS X and Linux

amazon-corretto-crypto-provider - The Amazon Corretto Crypto Provider is a collection of high-performance cryptographic implementations exposed via standard JCA/JCE interfaces.

Obfuscator-iOS - Secure your app by obfuscating all the hard-coded security-sensitive strings.

makeself - A self-extracting archiving tool for Unix systems, in 100% shell script.

SwiftyRSA - RSA public/private key encryption in Swift

wyhash - The FASTEST QUALITY hash function, random number generators (PRNG) and hash map.

AES256CBC

upb - a small protobuf implementation in C