[Python-Dev] Hash collision security issue (now public) (original) (raw)
Fred Drake fdrake at acm.org
Thu Dec 29 14:30:55 CET 2011
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On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
Persistence layers like ZODB and cross interpreter communication channels used by multiprocessing may (!) rely on the fact that the hash of a string is fixed.
ZODB does not rely on a fixed hash function for strings; for any application to rely on a stable hash would cause problems when updating Python versions.
-Fred
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