[issue13703] Hash collision security issue

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

Gregory P. Smith wrote:
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> Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> added the comment:
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> Question: Should sys.flags.hash_randomization be True (1) when PYTHONHASHSEED=0?  It is now.

The flag should probably be removed - simply because
the env var is not a flag, it's a configuration parameter.

Exposing the seed value as sys.hashseed would be better and more useful
to applications.

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