MD5? SHA1? We increase security by not telling you.

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[–] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's not that uncommon because they have specific lengths, so usually just by the length you can know the checksum. Of course it's not perfect, but for file verification it's usually MD5, SHA1, or SHA256, so the length is enough to differentiate between them.

But yeah, dick move.

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  • [–] [S] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It’s the first time I’ve seen it. Are we supposed to memorize the specific length of each hashing function now?

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