You're responding to an argument I never made. I'm not surprised MD5 is used in the wild, nor confused about the reasons why. And hell, it's a step up from plai

You're responding to an argument I never made. I'm not surprised MD5 is used in the wild, nor confused about the reasons why. And hell, it's a step up from plain text, which is probably even more common. I'm just surprised to read about its deficiencies on Hacker News as if it were news.