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Author fx5
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, mark.dickinson, neologix, pitrou, skrah, terry.reedy, tim.peters, v+python, vstinner, zbysz
Date 2012-01-19.18:05:52
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> The suffix only introduces a constant change in all hash values
> output, so even if you don't know the suffix, you can still
> generate data sets with collisions by just having the prefix.

That's true. But without the suffix, I can pretty easy and efficient guess the prefix by just seeing the result of a few well-chosen and short repr(dict(X)). I suppose that's harder with the suffix.
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