On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 21:55:52 -0800 Paul McMillan <p...@mcmillan.ws> wrote: > > This is similar to the change proposed by Christian Heimes. > > Most importantly, I moved the xor with r[x % len_r] down a line. > Before, it wasn't being applied to the last character.
Shouldn't it be r[i % len(r)] instead? (refer to yesterday's #python-dev discussion) > I think Ruby uses FNV-1 with a salt, making it less vulnerable to > this. FNV is otherwise similar to our existing hash function. Again, we could re-use FNV-1's primes, since they claim they have better dispersion properties than the average prime. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
