Rethinking Moderation

So Slipshod Slashdot has a story up on a Chinese cryp­tog­ra­pher who found a short­cut through the SHA-1 scheme two years ago. While I’m not a cryp­tog­ra­pher, it appears to be eas­ier to forge mes­sages or crack hashed pass­words which use the SHA-1 algo­rithm. Unfortunately, even read­ing the com­ments at +5 puts the num­ber of …