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Ruby: Better Message Security Through Floating-Point Hash Keys
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| x = { 'foo' => 'Normal Message', (0.1 + 0.02) => 'Secret Message' } | |
| # Outputs 'Normal Message' | |
| puts x['foo'] | |
| # Outputs NOTHING because 0.1 + 0.02 equals 0.12000000000000001, not 0.12! | |
| # (The Russians wil never find the secret message!) | |
| puts x[0.12] |
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