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0 pointsrimantas14y ago0 comments

Yeah, at least by using md5 one can easily screw everything up in an obvious way.

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marshray14y ago· 2 in thread

I think you were being sarcastic, but sometimes that is indeed an improvement.

pyre14y ago

I think that point of the sarcasm was that using MD5 is the obvious screw-up.

Yes, I understand that. I was saying that an obviously screwed-up system is often better than a subtly screwed-up one.

Nevertheless, a well-implemented MD5-based system could still be "less bad" than the buggy home-rolled bcrypt in that link.

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