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by b7kich 5109 days ago
How in the world would does the described issue with hash codes on distributed systems fix the issue of hash collisions in a request? Usually the attacker would send multiple parameters for "a","\0a","\00a" in a single request anyhow.
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Sorry, I think I misunderstood your first post then. By "the issue", I thought you were referring to the issue that the randomized-hash set out to solve (DOS attacks/pathological performance due to predictable hashes)