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.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 2cdbc0e..5986fb8 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -7344,11 +7344,21 @@ unicode_hash(PyUnicodeObject *self)
     if (self->hash != -1)
         return self->hash;
     len = Py_SIZE(self);
+    /*
+      We make the hash of the empty string be 0, rather than using
+      (prefix ^ suffix), since this slightly obfuscates the hash secret
+    */
+    if (len == 0) {
+        self->hash = 0;
+        return 0;
+    }
     p = self->str;
-    x = *p << 7;
+    x = _Py_HashSecret.prefix;
+    x ^= *p << 7;
     while (--len >= 0)
         x = (1000003*x) ^ *p++;
     x ^= Py_SIZE(self);
+    x ^= _Py_HashSecret.suffix;
     if (x == -1)
         x = -2;
     self->hash = x;