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|    Re: DJB2    |
|    10 Nov 18 12:52:22    |
      From: notsaying@nospicedham.invalid.org              On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 11:39:48 GMT, "R.Wieser"        wrote:              > Kerr,       >       >> Have I read this correctly?       >       > I doon't think so.       >       >> or is it (maybe I'm answering my own question) that the       >> algorithm is based on 32bit values.       >       > Possibly, although I do not see anything special being done with the       > upper two bytes.       >       > The problem is that you have degraded the hash to an 8-bit value, by       > multiplying AL by BL. In short, the multiplication ignores the "15"       > from your "1505" value.       >       > It just needs a 16 bit multiplication (AX by BX. Mind DX though, it       > gets overwritten).       >       > Regards,       > Rudy Wieser       >       >       >              Doh!, thanks for that.              --       Bah, and indeed, Humbug.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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