[issue13703] Hash collision security issue

Marc-Andre Lemburg report at bugs.python.org
Mon Feb 6 14:12:41 CET 2012


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

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 
> The simple collision counting approach leaves a gaping hole open, as
> demonstrated by Frank.

Could you elaborate on this ?

Note that I've updated the collision counting patch to cover both
possible attack cases I mentioned in http://bugs.python.org/issue13703#msg150724.
If there's another case I'm unaware of, please let me know.

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