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@@ -128,8 +128,8 @@ then when you can be absolutely certain that the outputs will never be
transmitted out of the kernel. This is only remotely useful over `jhash` as a
means of mitigating hashtable flooding denial of service attacks.
-Generating a key
-================
+Generating a HalfSipHash key
+============================
Keys should always be generated from a cryptographically secure source of
random numbers, either using get_random_bytes or get_random_once:
@@ -139,8 +139,8 @@ get_random_bytes(&key, sizeof(key));
If you're not deriving your key from here, you're doing it wrong.
-Using the functions
-===================
+Using the HalfSipHash functions
+===============================
There are two variants of the function, one that takes a list of integers, and
one that takes a buffer::