[Cryptography] Introducing the world's worst hash function

[Peter Gutmann]

Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> writes:

>I remember that, but I am not sure from where. Did Linux or Sun Unix once do
>something similar??

Linux, bogomips.

>seeing the merdeMerdeHash() code in almost compilable C

I left out the low-level gunk since the idea was to illustrate a truly awful
hash function design without loading it up with details.  If anyone wants the
rest of the code, contact me off-list.

Peter.