[issue13703] Hash collision security issue
Martin v. Löwis
report at bugs.python.org
Thu Jan 26 23:42:25 CET 2012
Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:
> What happens if, instead of putting strings in a dictionary directly, I
> have them wrapped in something. For example, the classes Antoine and I
> pasted early. These define hash and equal as being strings, but don't have
> an ordering.
As Dave has analysed: the dictionary falls back to the current implementation.
So wrt. your question "Is it still able to find the value?", the answer is
Yes, certainly. It's fully backwackwards compatible, with the limitation
in msg152030 (i.e. the dictionary order may change for dictionaries with
string keys colliding in their hash() values).
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