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At their scale maybe they're worried about collisions? Or, like me, they're drowning in security tooling from corporate and don't want to have to carve out exc
by paulryanrogers 3y ago
At their scale maybe they're worried about collisions?
Or, like me, they're drowning in security tooling from corporate and don't want to have to carve out exceptions for md5 usage in each.
- RaisingSpear 3y ago> At their scale maybe they're worried about collisions? With their scheme, collisions are already guaranteed to happen if they have >256 users.
- fodkodrasz 3y agoI guess parent meant abusable non-uniform distribution of collisions (they have collisions anyway as the take only the first two characters according to GP comment)
- winrid 3y agoIt could be they didn't want to explain the md5 usage, yeah. But that's kinda nuts if they do this every query.