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Re:Git archive generation meets Hyrum's law by ilyt on Friday February 03, 2023 @02:43AM (#34638312)
Perl did that too IIRC, although motivation was to avoid predictable hash collisions that might put program into slow path
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Re:Git archive generation meets Hyrum's law by usr1106 on Friday February 03, 2023 @03:16AM (#34638603)
Didn't Python introduce that, too, after a high profile DoS CVE around 10 years ago?
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Re:Git archive generation meets Hyrum's law by jwilk on Friday February 03, 2023 @03:54AM (#34638870)
Yes.

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__...

> Changed in version 3.3: Hash randomization is enabled by default.

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