On 18 August 2012 02:23, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote: > Joao S. O. Bueno writes: > > > I don't think this behavior is only desirable to unit tests: having > > URL's been formed in predictable way a good thing in any way one > > thinks about it. > > Especially if you're a hacker. One more thing you may be able to use > against careless sites that don't expect the unexpected to occur in > URLs. > > I'm not saying this is a bad thing, but we should remember that the > whole point of PYTHONHASHSEED is that regularities can be exploited > for devious and malicious purposes, and reducing regularity makes many > attacks more difficult. "*Any* way one thinks about it" is far too > strong a claim.
Ageeded that "any way one thinks about it" is far too strong a claim - but I still hold to the point. Maybe "most ways one thinks about it" :-) . > > Steve > > > > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
