I agree with the comment in the article about using cryptographic hashes (where possible, of course): there are huge peace-of-mind advantages to just not having

I agree with the comment in the article about using cryptographic hashes (where possible, of course): there are huge peace-of-mind advantages to just not having to worry about a problem. Obviously, there can be situations in which one must make a pragmatic engineering tradeoff between reliability and performance, but in the main I think it's worth doing.