Re: Unordered setsmaps, for when ordering is hard/expensive/unwanted?

Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> Is your concern with correlation that authors (or libraries, rather)
> might attack the PRNG to predict the index, and provide an array
> wrapper that auto-corrects the starting index to 0?  I'm not the right
> person to ask about what properties this would need, and how to most
> cheaply achieve it.

Remember http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/72049? The fix was to 
randomize but care was required to avoid further attacks. Also IIRC 
there was performance blow-back (odd performance faults).

/be

Received on Tuesday, 3 September 2013 04:16:58 UTC