/* * GraxRabble * Demo programs for libsodium. */ #include #include #include #include /* library header */ #include "utils.h" /* utility functions shared by demos */ /* * Many applications and programming language implementations were * recently found to be vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks when * a hash function with weak security guarantees, such as Murmurhash * 3, was used to construct a hash table. * * In order to address this, Sodium provides the crypto_shorthash() * function, which outputs short but unpredictable (without knowing * the secret key) values suitable for picking a list in a hash table * for a given key. * * This function is optimized for short inputs. * * The output of this function is only 64 bits. Therefore, it should * not be considered collision-resistant. * * Use cases: * * - Hash tables * - Probabilistic data structures such as Bloom filters * - Integrity checking in interactive protocols */ void shorthash(void) { unsigned char key[crypto_shorthash_KEYBYTES]; unsigned char hash[crypto_shorthash_BYTES]; unsigned char message[MAX_INPUT_LEN]; size_t message_len; puts("Example: crypto_shorthash\n"); prompt_input("a key", (char*)key, sizeof key, 0); message_len = prompt_input("a message", (char*)message, sizeof message, 1); printf("Hashing the message with %s\n", crypto_shorthash_primitive()); crypto_shorthash(hash, message, message_len, key); printf("Hash: "); print_hex(hash, sizeof hash); } int main(void) { init(); shorthash(); return 0; }