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Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #13703: oCERT-2011-003: add -R command-line option and PYTHONHASHSEED
+ environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of
+ service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types. Patch
+ by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
+
Library
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