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[jira] [Updated] (KAFKA-10650) Use Murmur3 hashing instead of MD5 in SkimpyOffsetMap

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Viktor Somogyi-Vass updated KAFKA-10650:
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The usage of MD5 has been uncovered during testing Kafka for FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) verification.

While MD5 isn't a FIPS incompatibility here as it isn't used for cryptographic purposes, I spent some time with this as it isn't ideal either. MD5 is a relatively fast crypto hashing algo but there are much better performing algorithms for hash tables as it's used in SkimpyOffsetMap.

By applying Murmur3 (that is implemented in Streams) I could achieve a 3x faster {{put}} operation and the overall segment cleaning sped up by 30% while preserving the same collision rate (both performed within 0.0015 - 0.007, mostly with 0.004 median).

The usage of Murmur3 was decided as research paper [1] shows Murmur2 is relatively a good choice for hash tables. Based on this Since Murmur3 is available in the project I used that. 

[1]
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235663569_Performance_of_the_most_common_non-cryptographic_hash_functions

  was:
The usage of MD5 has been uncovered during testing Kafka for FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) verification.

While MD5 isn't a FIPS incompatibility here as it isn't used for cryptographic purposes, I spent some time with this as it isn't ideal either. MD5 is a relatively fast crypto hashing algo but there are much better performing algorithms for hash tables as it's used in SkimpyOffsetMap.

By applying Murmur3 (that is implemented in Streams) I could achieve a 3x faster {{put}} operation and the overall segment cleaning sped up by 30% while preserving the same collision rate (both performed within 0.0015 - 0.007, mostly with 0.004 median).


> Use Murmur3 hashing instead of MD5 in SkimpyOffsetMap
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: KAFKA-10650
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-10650
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: core
>            Reporter: Viktor Somogyi-Vass
>            Assignee: Viktor Somogyi-Vass
>            Priority: Major
>
> The usage of MD5 has been uncovered during testing Kafka for FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) verification.
> While MD5 isn't a FIPS incompatibility here as it isn't used for cryptographic purposes, I spent some time with this as it isn't ideal either. MD5 is a relatively fast crypto hashing algo but there are much better performing algorithms for hash tables as it's used in SkimpyOffsetMap.
> By applying Murmur3 (that is implemented in Streams) I could achieve a 3x faster {{put}} operation and the overall segment cleaning sped up by 30% while preserving the same collision rate (both performed within 0.0015 - 0.007, mostly with 0.004 median).
> The usage of Murmur3 was decided as research paper [1] shows Murmur2 is relatively a good choice for hash tables. Based on this Since Murmur3 is available in the project I used that. 
> [1]
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235663569_Performance_of_the_most_common_non-cryptographic_hash_functions



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