Message152767
Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote:
> Dave Malcolm wrote:
>> The release managers have pronounced:
>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-January/115892.html
>> Quoting that email:
>>> 1. Simple hash randomization is the way to go. We think this has the
>>> best chance of actually fixing the problem while being fairly
>>> straightforward such that we're comfortable putting it in a stable
>>> release.
>>> 2. It will be off by default in stable releases and enabled by an
>>> envar at runtime. This will prevent code breakage from dictionary
>>> order changing as well as people depending on the hash stability.
>
> Right, but that doesn't contradict what I wrote about adding
> env vars to fix a seed and optionally enable using a random
> seed, or adding collision counting as extra protection for
> cases that are not addressed by the hash seeding, such as
> e.g. collisions caused by 3rd types or numbers.
... at least I hope not :-) |
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