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usrnm 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Don't fuck with paste

Yeah, just CRC32 the password on the frontend, should be fine

howerj 6 months ago [–]

No, use a cryptographic hash function. If you use a CRC32 you will massively reduce the password space and make it easy to find collisions.

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