Eric Snow <ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com> added the comment: > The vulnerability is known since 2003 (Usenix 2003): read "Denial of > Service via Algorithmic Complexity Attacks" by Scott A. Crosby and Dan > S. Wallach.
Crosby started a meaningful thread on python-dev at that time similar to the current one: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-May/035874.html It includes a some good insight into the problem. ---------- nosy: +eric.snow _______________________________________ 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
