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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2012-02-20 18:54:16 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2012-02-20 18:54:16 (GMT)
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Issue #13703: add a way to randomize the hash values of basic types (str, bytes, datetime)
in order to make algorithmic complexity attacks on (e.g.) web apps much more complicated. The environment variable PYTHONHASHSEED and the new command line flag -R control this behavior.
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diff --git a/Include/object.h b/Include/object.h
index ef73a21..7848cf4 100644
--- a/Include/object.h
+++ b/Include/object.h
@@ -473,6 +473,12 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(void) Py_ReprLeave(PyObject *);
PyAPI_FUNC(long) _Py_HashDouble(double);
PyAPI_FUNC(long) _Py_HashPointer(void*);
+typedef struct {
+ long prefix;
+ long suffix;
+} _Py_HashSecret_t;
+PyAPI_DATA(_Py_HashSecret_t) _Py_HashSecret;
+
/* Helper for passing objects to printf and the like */
#define PyObject_REPR(obj) _PyUnicode_AsString(PyObject_Repr(obj))