[Python-Dev] Counting collisions for the win (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Jan 20 20:03:36 CET 2012

On 1/20/2012 11:17 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:

There is no perfect solutions, drawbacks of each solution should be compared.

Amen.

One possible attack that has been described for a collision counting dict depends on knowing precisely the trigger point. So let MAXCOLLISIONS either be configureable or just choose a random count between M and N, say 700 and 999.

It would not hurt to have alternate patches available in case a particular Python-powered site comes under prolonged attack. Though given our miniscule share of the market, than is much less likely that an attack on a PHP- or MS-powered site.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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