There was no jumping the gun. LM is a technical forum, at least to the degree that the should know the difference between a cipher and a digest. Regarding you

There was no jumping the gun. LM is a technical forum, at least to the degree that the should know the difference between a cipher and a digest. Regarding your other point, just because someone uses an algorithm doesn't mean that it is used with proper parameters, work factors, etc. Do no make any assumptions about crypto, "probably using" is not good enough.