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Bug 14414 – allow to set hash seed

Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: DUPLICATE
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P1
Component: druntime
Product: D
Version: D2
Platform: All
OS: All
Creation time: 2015-04-05T20:53:00Z
Last change time: 2016-10-17T17:13:43Z
Assigned to: nobody
Creator: code

Comments

Comment #0 by code — 2015-04-05T20:53:51Z

In order to mitigate the chance for hash table DoS attacks, we should make it possible to set the hash seed. extern(C) void _d_setHashSeed(int seed); http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]

Comment #1 by dfj1esp02 — 2016-09-14T12:04:45Z

Another possibility is to change the hash algorithm adaptively by counting collisions.

Comment #2 by dfj1esp02 — 2016-10-17T17:13:43Z

Looks like perl solution is not this simple? http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec.html#Algorithmic-Complexity-Attacks *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 7179 ***