Gregory P. Smith <g...@krypto.org> added the comment: On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Antoine Pitrou <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > >> You said above that it should be hardcoded; if so, how can it be changed >> at run-time from an environment variable? Or am I misunderstanding. > > You're right, I used the wrong word. I meant it should be a constant > independently of the dict size. But, indeed, not hard-coded in the > source. > >> > > BTW, presumably if we do it, we should do it for sets as well? >> > >> > Yeah, and use the same env var / sys function. >> >> Despite the "DICT" in the title? OK. > > Well, dict is the most likely target for these attacks. >
While true I wouldn't make that claim as there will be applications using a set in a vulnerable manner. I'd prefer to see any such environment variable name used to configure this behavior not mention DICT or SET but just say HASHTABLE. That is a much better bikeshed color. ;) I'm still in the hash seed randomization camp but I'm finding it interesting all of the creative ways others are trying to "solve" this problem in a way that could be enabled by default in stable versions regardless. :) -gps ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13703> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
