timhill

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   by timhill 16y ago

   I know (hope) this comment was made in jest, and I don't have an interest in starting up a "women in tech" flamewar, but this kind of comment really gets me. XKCD ( http://xkcd.com/322/ ) has a good comic about this, as usual. "Joking" abou
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   by timhill 17y ago

   I Am Not A Cryptographer, so take this with a grain of salt. Using a unique salt for each user "helps", but is still insecure. The problem is that hash functions such as SHA or MD5 are designed to be very fast. This means that even with uni
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   by timhill 17y ago

   Oh, come on. Are people really taking this article seriously? Look, it would be interesting to read an academic analysis of possible differences in how the sexes both produce and perceive entertainment. That is not what this article is. It