QHash security fix (2/2): enable QHash random seed
authorGiuseppe D'Angelo <dangelog@gmail.com>
Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:50:02 +0000 (08:50 +0000)
committerQt by Nokia <qt-info@nokia.com>
Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:59:26 +0000 (17:59 +0200)
commitc01eaa438200edc9a3bbcd8ae1e8ded058bea268
treed0067ffcc32322f67f39a326000a32a9a9325658
parentc2293c897c9f2e35dffec777c19577c0f6052e81
QHash security fix (2/2): enable QHash random seed

Algorithmic complexity attacks against hash tables have been known
since 2003 (cf. [1, 2]), and they have been left unpatched for years
until the 2011 attacks [3] against many libraries /
(reference) implementations of programming languages.

This patch makes qHash use the QHash seed introduced in the
previous commits, thus truly randomizing bucketing in QHash.

[1] http://www.cs.rice.edu/~scrosby/hash/CrosbyWallach_UsenixSec2003.pdf
[2] http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec.html#Algorithmic-Complexity-Attacks
[3] http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html

Task-number: QTBUG-23529
Change-Id: Ibee9cf6aa820af5d777fcde478647665c728052a
Reviewed-by: Jason McDonald <jason.mcdonald@nokia.com>
src/corelib/tools/qhash.h