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Re:The Curious Case of MD5 by jeffparsons on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @11:57PM (#38863178)
This happened to me. Users initially couldn't directly control the content being hashed, because it contained a random element (via UUID). Later, the API surface expanded.

Luckily, my personal rule is to default to a cryptographic hash unless I can convince myself that cryptographic robustness will never matter and performance definitely will matter, rather than the other way around.

In this specific case all users were internal to the company, so it wouldn't have really mattered if it was vulnerable. But it could just have easily been an external user-facing thing.

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