[issue13703] Hash collision security issue

Guido van Rossum report at bugs.python.org
Thu Jan 19 00:44:34 CET 2012


Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> added the comment:

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Terry J. Reedy <report at bugs.python.org>wrote:

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> Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> 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.

You mean as a fix or that they successfully attacked a collision-counting
system?

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