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Thread: md5 hashing emails - that's dumb, right?
Post: RE: md5 hashing emails - that's dumb, right?
epixoip Wrote: (02-12-2017, 08:14 AM)
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Email addresses (and usernames themselves for that matter) are really no different from very weak passwords: short, predictable, low-entropy, human generated ... |
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Thread: md5 hashing emails - that's dumb, right?
Post: RE: md5 hashing emails - that's dumb, right?
epixoip Wrote: (02-11-2017, 09:36 PM)
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In this context (assuming the donors or beneficiaries or whomever are intended to be kept confidential) it is dumb to use MD5, yes. They should be trivial to ... |
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02-12-2017, 01:31 AM |
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Thread: md5 hashing emails - that's dumb, right?
Post: md5 hashing emails - that's dumb, right?
I work with nonprofits who often share their email lists lower cased and hashed with unsalted md5 in order to verify how many people signed a petition, etc.
That sounds like it would be fairly triv... |
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02-11-2017, 07:35 PM |