Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > > As much as the counting idea rubs me wrong, > > FWIW, the original 2003 paper reported that the url-caching system that > they tested used collision-counting to evade attacks.
I think that was DJB's DNS server/cache actually. But deciding to limit collisions in a specific application is not the same as limiting them in the general case. Python dicts have a lot of use cases that are not limited to storing URL parameters, domain names or instance attributes: there is a greater risk of meeting pathological cases with legitimate keys. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
