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Re:CoreCLR is now open source by MichaelGG on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @02:08PM (#8992484)
Also is it not for hash collision protection, which can end up hurting the runtime of many algorithms, causing a DoS?
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Re:CoreCLR is now open source by plorkyeran on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @02:17PM (#8992567)
No, it has no effect on hash collisions. Two hashes that are equal before being xored with the daily build number will still be equal afterwards.
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Re:CoreCLR is now open source by porges on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @02:27PM (#8992657)
It won't help much there as the number is static for a particular build.
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Re:CoreCLR is now open source by munificent on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @03:37PM (#8993172)
The hash randomization for security is above this part of the code.
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