Re: [Python-Dev] Counting collisions for the win

2012-01-19 Thread Ivan Kozik
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 00:48, Victor Stinner wrote: > I propose to solve the hash collision vulnerability by counting > collisions because it does fix the vulnerability with a minor or no > impact on applications or backward compatibility. I don't see why we > should use a different fix for Pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] Counting collisions for the win

2012-01-19 Thread Ivan Kozik
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 03:48, Guido van Rossum wrote: > I think that's because your collision-counting algorithm was much more > primitive than MAL's. Conceded. >> This, >> combined with the second problem (needing to catch an exception), led >> me to abandon this approach and write Securetypes