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Re:httpdiff – diff responses to two HTTP/HTTPS requests on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @09:00PM (#9260637)
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 was unexpected, when better alternatives abound?

Re:The Cryptographic Doom Principle on Saturday January 10, 2015 @06:03PM (#8868274)
> 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.

Re:McGill will double your password if you don’t do it first on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @12:20AM (#8628412)
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.