On Thursday, November 21, 2013 7:26:16 PM UTC+4, mscdex wrote: > > On Thursday, November 21, 2013 9:33:18 AM UTC-5, Matt Sergeant wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Timothy J Fontaine >> <tjfon...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> * build: make v8 use random seed for hash tables (Ben Noordhuis) >>> >> >> Is this a fix for an algorithmic complexity attack like this: >> http://blog.booking.com/hardening-perls-hash-function.html<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.booking.com%2Fhardening-perls-hash-function.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEtUIo60iuV4ZdbcHOT---gszFqMQ>? >> > > IIRC the change was made because v8 had previously been using a random > seed by default but they recently changed that upstream. >
Yep, starting from this commit - https://github.com/v8/v8/commit/4bc70e8 - v8 is now using a random seed, which is equal to 314159265. Apparently, this number was carefully calculated by google quantum supercomputers and guaranteed to be random (see also http://xkcd.com/221/) -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
