From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-06-12T09:22:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [Security] Ruby 1.8.6-pl369 released

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Michal Suchanek<hramrach@centrum.cz> wrote:
> 2009/6/11 Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In message "Re: [Security] Ruby 1.8.6-pl369 released"
>>    on Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:19:45 +0900, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> writes:
>>
>> |> Could be, if we can define "reasonable range".
>> |
>> |Perhaps it could be set by a variable (like $KCODE).
>>
>> I, sort of, hesitate to introduce a new global state to the library.
>
> The only way to work around this is by a global state of "reasonably
> large exponent" which can be either fixed or configurable at runtime.
>
> If that solution is accepted it should better be configurable.  It
> could be even set to Inf by default for compatiblitity and people who
> anticipate this could be a problem or were bitten by the issue already
> can set it lower.

I like that idea.

-greg