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From:
Greg Lindahl
Date:
December 29, 2011 14:25
Subject:
perl's hash randomization in the news
Message ID:
20111229222537.GD28277@bx9.net
 The researchers concluded that the best way of avoiding the problem is
 to use randomised hash functions such as those used in Perl, which
 were included after a security conference paper on the technique was
 published in 2003PDF. CRuby 1.9 has used a similar randomisation
 technique since 2008.

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/28C3-Denial-of-Service-attacks-on-web-applications-made-easy-1401863.html

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