STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> One possible fix: ...
> Main loop looks like this: ..

Well, it was decided to not impact performances to workaround one specific 
class of attack, whereas there are many other ways to DoS Python. So we chose 
to keep the main loop unchanged. Randomizing the hash is not a fix for the hash 
DoS, it only makes the attacker harder.

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