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Author pitrou
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Date 2012-01-27.20:25:13
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[Martin's approach]
> The point I first missed is that this triggers only when the hash is
> *fully* equal; if the hashes are merely equal after masking, then
> today's try-another-slot approach will still be used, even for
> strings.

But then isn't it vulnerable to Frank's first attack as exposed in
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-January/115726.html ?
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2012-01-27 20:25:14pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, lemburg, gvanrossum, tim.peters, loewis, barry, georg.brandl, terry.reedy, gregory.p.smith, jcea, mark.dickinson, vstinner, christian.heimes, benjamin.peterson, eric.araujo, grahamd, Arfrever, v+python, alex, zbysz, skrah, dmalcolm, gz, neologix, Arach, Mark.Shannon, eric.snow, Zhiping.Deng, Huzaifa.Sidhpurwala, Jim.Jewett, PaulMcMillan, fx5
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