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Denial of service via hash collisions

Denial of service via hash collisions

Posted Jan 12, 2012 10:57 UTC (Thu) by job (subscriber, #670)
Parent article: Denial of service via hash collisions

There are some upsides to using a language that's been around the block a few times. Anyway, I think there are some comments regarding this in qmail from djb which precedes the Perl fixes, so this class of vulnerabilities has been known for a while.


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Denial of service via hash collisions

Posted Jan 12, 2012 12:52 UTC (Thu) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]

The presenters at 28c3 specifically mention DJB in their talk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Cq3CLI6H8

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