Re: Re: 5.3.9, Hash DoS, release

From: Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:39:56 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: 5.3.9, Hash DoS, release
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Hey, > That is Restricting a max length of a buckets list in a hash table. > > If a bucket's length exceed 1024, any insertion into this bucket > will return failure and a warning will be generated. > > What do you think? very bad idea. Especially when it comes to numerical indices a legitimate application might put data into a big array and have legitimate colliding keys. Regards, Stefan Esser

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