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Re: [tlug] Are ordered hashes useful?



On 11 February 2011 09:49, Marty Pauley <marty.pauley@example.com> wrote:

> Predictable hashing order can cause security problems (like
> predictable anything, I suppose).  Perl used to have the same order of
> hash keys across multiple runs, but they've now fixed that by picking
> a random salt at startup.

At least TCP sequence numbers are still sequential! ;)

Josh "Feckin' Gombeen" Glover


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