diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index 85953ad..3fb0bf6 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -1277,7 +1277,29 @@
    inheritance of :meth:`__hash__` will be blocked, just as if :attr:`__hash__`
    had been explicitly set to :const:`None`.
 
-   See also the :option:`-R` command-line option.
+
+   .. note::
+
+      Note by default the :meth:`__hash__` values of str, bytes and datetime
+      objects are "salted" with an unpredictable random value.  Although they
+      remain constant within an individual Python process, they are not
+      predictable between repeated invocations of Python.
+
+      This is intended to provide protection against a denial-of-service caused
+      by carefully-chosen inputs that exploit the worst case performance of a
+      dict insertion, O(n^2) complexity.  See
+      http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html for details.
+
+      Changing hash values affects the order in which keys are retrieved from a
+      dict.  Although Python has never made guarantees about this ordering (and
+      it typically varies between 32-bit and 64-bit builds), enough real-world
+      code implicitly relies on this non-guaranteed behavior that the
+      randomization is disabled by default.
+
+      See also :envvar:`PYTHONHASHSEED`.
+
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.3
+      Hash randomization is enabled by default.
 
 
 .. method:: object.__bool__(self)
diff --git a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
index b97dbcd..64d453e 100644
--- a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
+++ b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 When invoking Python, you may specify any of these options::
 
-    python [-bBdEhiORqsSuvVWx?] [-c command | -m module-name | script | - ] [args]
+    python [-bBdEhiOqsSuvVWx?] [-c command | -m module-name | script | - ] [args]
 
 The most common use case is, of course, a simple invocation of a script::
 
@@ -486,9 +486,8 @@
 
 .. envvar:: PYTHONHASHSEED
 
-   If this variable is set to ``random``, the effect is the same as specifying
-   the :option:`-R` option: a random value is used to seed the hashes of str,
-   bytes and datetime objects.
+   If this variable is set to ``random``, a random value is used to seed the
+   hashes of str, bytes and datetime objects.
 
    If :envvar:`PYTHONHASHSEED` is set to an integer value, it is used as a fixed
    seed for generating the hash() of the types covered by the hash
@@ -499,8 +498,7 @@
    values.
 
    The integer must be a decimal number in the range [0,4294967295].  Specifying
-   the value 0 will lead to the same hash values as when hash randomization is
-   disabled.
+   the value 0 will disable hash randomization.
 
    .. versionadded:: 3.2.3