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Author	larry
Recipients	Colm Buckley, Lukasa, alex, christian.heimes, doko, dstufft, larry, lemburg, martin.panter, matejcik, ned.deily, python-dev, rhettinger, skrah, thomas-petazzoni, vstinner, ztane
Date	2016-06-07.19:10:18
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
Marked as misclassified	Yes
Message-id	<1465326618.72.0.718273103565.issue26839@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> This is only a DoS vector if you can hit the server so early in the boot process that it doesn't have enough entropy. Python hash randomization only happens once. So it's not a matter of how early we try the attack, it's a matter of how early we seed Python hash randomization.

> This is only a DoS vector if you can hit the server so early in the boot process that it doesn't have enough entropy.

Python hash randomization only happens once.  So it's not a matter of how early we try the attack, it's a matter of how early we seed Python hash randomization.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2016-06-07 19:10:18	larry	set	recipients: + larry, lemburg, rhettinger, doko, vstinner, christian.heimes, matejcik, ned.deily, alex, skrah, python-dev, martin.panter, ztane, dstufft, Lukasa, thomas-petazzoni, Colm Buckley
2016-06-07 19:10:18	larry	set	messageid: <1465326618.72.0.718273103565.issue26839@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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