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Sat Jan 28 01:17:28 CET 2012 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-January/115884.html

On 1/27/2012 11:39 AM, martin at v.loewis.de wrote:
>
>> Another issue occurs to me: when a hash with colliding keys (one that 
>> has been attacked, and has trees) has a non-string key added, isn't 
>> the flattening process likely to have extremely poor performance?
>
> Correct. 

Thanks for the clarification.

> "Don't do that, then"
>
> I don't consider it mandatory to fix all issues with hash collision.
> In fact, none of the strategies fixes all issues with hash collisions;
> even the hash-randomization solutions only deal with string keys, and
> don't consider collisions on non-string keys. 

Which is fine, I just wanted the clarification.
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[Python-Dev] [issue13703] Hash collision security issue