BrowserUk answered the security question.

Note that filtering against this attack is virtually impossible, without extensive analysis you won't know what could possibly be a problem, and it could affect any hash at all that gets lots of data. Hashes are documented to be fast, and it is Perl's job to make them work out that way.

As for people relying on the order from the hash, I'd consider breaking that to mostly be a benefit. Anyone who relied on hash order being consistent was guaranteeing that their code would break when you change versions of Perl. (Perl's hash function changed fairly frequently, though admittedly not as often as it does now.) With the new change, people catch their mistake earlier. A real example of this mistake that I believe bit Ovid was a poorly written test that assumed the order in which keys came back out from a hash.

Though, admittedly, it did cause a few problems for people who would compare whether they got the same hash that they had previously by using Storable to stringify the hash, and then did a string compare with the old result. However you can fix that by setting $Storable::canonical to a true value.

In reply to Re^3: using values and keys functions by tilly
in thread using values and keys functions by jim_neophyte

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