[Python-Dev] Hash collision security issue (now public) (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat Dec 31 23:38:48 CET 2011


On 12/31/2011 4:43 PM, PJ Eby wrote:

Here's an idea. Suppose we add a sys.hashseed or some such, that's settable to an int, and defaults to whatever we're using now. Then programs that want a fix can just set it to a random number,

I do not think we can allow that to change once there are hashed dictionaries existing.

-- Terry Jan Reedy



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