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Re:Security Update by bredren on Friday May 17, 2019 @02:03AM (#19936706)
From what I understand, many systems do not choose to implement strong hashing algos.
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Re:Security Update by cyphar on Friday May 17, 2019 @02:27AM (#19936807)
Even PHP's hash_function uses scrypt. Yes, some people explicitly decide to hash everything with sha1 but nothing you or I do will ever be able to stop them.
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