On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > If you want to encourage them to fill up their memory with user provided > data in a non-erasable way, then sure, that would certainly keep an > attacker from having to figure out hash collisions in order to bring down a > system. Sending *any* arbitrarily varied data would be enough then.
Interning doesn't have to imply non-erasable. And filling memory is a LOT harder than slowing something down with O(n^2) hashtable worst-casing. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
