Message151596
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Antoine Pitrou <report@bugs.python.org>wrote:
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> Antoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr> added the comment:
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> > > As much as the counting idea rubs me wrong,
> >
> > FWIW, the original 2003 paper reported that the url-caching system that
> > they tested used collision-counting to evade attacks.
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> I think that was DJB's DNS server/cache actually.
> But deciding to limit collisions in a specific application is not the
> same as limiting them in the general case. Python dicts have a lot of
> use cases that are not limited to storing URL parameters, domain names
> or instance attributes: there is a greater risk of meeting pathological
> cases with legitimate keys.
>
Really? This sounds like FUD to me. |
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