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tptacek
on Oct 20, 2009
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You still think that people know what HMAC is. Most people think HMAC means "hash a key in with the message".
cperciva
on Oct 20, 2009
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My point remains even if people do get confused about that: Their crypto might be broken and useless, but it still won't be
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tptacek
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Dude. You just saw what happened to Flickr. Stop being argumentative.
cperciva
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What happened to Flickr would have happened even faster if they hadn't used crypto at all. Their crypto was broken, but didn't make things worse than they would have been in the absence of crypto.
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