On Thursday, November 21, 2013 9:33:18 AM UTC-5, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Timothy J Fontaine > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> * build: make v8 use random seed for hash tables (Ben Noordhuis) >> > > Is this a fix for an algorithmic complexity attack like this: > http://blog.booking.com/hardening-perls-hash-function.html ? >
IIRC the change was made because v8 had previously been using a random seed by default but they recently changed that upstream. -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
