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Tue Feb 25 21:13:33 CET 2014 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-February/132791.html

On 2/25/2014 8:32 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> Instead of pre-generating one set of values that can be be used to DoS things
>> you have to pre-generate 256 sets of values and try them until you get the
>> right one. It’s like putting on armor made of paper and saying it’s harder to
>> stab you now.
>
> Paper armor? You mean the stuff they tested here?
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1980597/

OT, but I just watched that Mythbusters episode and they confirmed that 
on a weight basis, paper armor from multiple folded sheets was 
comparable to steel. They have also shown that phonebooks stop ordinary 
bullets.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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