akjsdfh · HackerTrans

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?

akjsdfh

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> 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.

akjsdfh

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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.

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