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Author Jim.Jewett
Recipients Arach, Arfrever, Huzaifa.Sidhpurwala, Jim.Jewett, Mark.Shannon, PaulMcMillan, Zhiping.Deng, alex, barry, benjamin.peterson, christian.heimes, dmalcolm, eric.araujo, eric.snow, fx5, georg.brandl, grahamd, gregory.p.smith, gvanrossum, gz, jcea, lemburg, loewis, mark.dickinson, neologix, pitrou, skorgu, skrah, terry.reedy, tim.peters, v+python, vstinner, zbysz
Date 2012-02-14.20:34:55
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On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:37 PM,  Dave Malcolm
<dmalcolm@redhat.com> added the comment:

>  * added comments about the specialcasing of length 0:
>    /*
>      We make the hash of the empty string be 0, rather than using
>      (prefix ^ suffix), since this slightly obfuscates the hash secret
>    */

Frankly, other short strings may give away even more, because you can
put several into the same dict.

I would prefer that the randomization not kick in until strings are at
least 8 characters, but I think excluding length 1 is a pretty obvious
win.
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