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akjsdfh
12y ago
counterpoint: is there any reason not to use a stronger hash function? Why leave something dangerous lying around when /probably/ nothing is going to go wrong... until someone picks it up and decides to do something with it that w
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akjsdfh
12y ago
> To be fair, the first use was a link to the wikipedia article, the style just doesn't give you any indication of that. Huh? it's a different color.
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akjsdfh
12y ago
I was once told it was to prevent DoS-ing the back end of the system by submitting gigabytes to hash... the check was an HTML input limit and there was no backend limit... I was sad.