[Python-Dev] Status of the fix for the hash collision vulnerability

[Jeremy Sanders]

Jeremy Sanders wrote:

> Victor Stinner wrote:
> 
>> If hash(str1)&DICT_MASK == hash(str2)&DICT_MASK but
>> hash(str1)!=hash(str2), strings are not compared (this is a common
>> optimization in Python), and the so the attack would not be successful
>> (it would be slow, but not as slow as comparing two strings).
> 
> It's a shame the hash function can't take a second salt parameter to
> include in the hash. Each dict could have its own salt, generated from a
> quick pseudo-random generator.

Please ignore... forgot that the hashes are cached for strings!

Jeremy