[Cryptography] Introducing the world's worst hash function
Nemo
nemo at self-evident.org
Wed Jan 30 17:14:25 EST 2019
Jerry Leichter <leichter at lrw.com> writes:
> So during boot time, some code was run that timed very large numbers
> of iterations of a simple loop, enough that you could actually get a
> useful timing value from the available clocks.
Linux still does this. Or did prior to the era of processor frequency
scaling.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BogoMips
- Nemo
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