Merge from 3.1: Issue #13703: add a way to randomize the hash values of basic types (str, bytes, datetime)

in order to make algorithmic complexity attacks on (e.g.) web apps much more complicated.

The environment variable PYTHONHASHSEED and the new command line flag -R control this
behavior.
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Georg Brandl 2012-02-20 21:31:46 +01:00
commit 09a7c72cad
34 changed files with 676 additions and 162 deletions

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@ -761,23 +761,6 @@ try:
except NameError: # statvfs_result may not exist
pass
if not _exists("urandom"):
def urandom(n):
"""urandom(n) -> str
Return a string of n random bytes suitable for cryptographic use.
"""
try:
_urandomfd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY)
except (OSError, IOError):
raise NotImplementedError("/dev/urandom (or equivalent) not found")
bs = b""
while len(bs) < n:
bs += read(_urandomfd, n - len(bs))
close(_urandomfd)
return bs
# Supply os.popen()
def popen(cmd, mode="r", buffering=-1):
if not isinstance(cmd, str):