JGWeissman comments on Techniques for probability estimates - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Yvain 04 January 2011 11:38PM

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Comment author: JGWeissman 06 January 2011 09:22:53PM 0 points [-]

The point is there are people who would not realize that you need a salt, or a hash function not vulnerable to collisions. Yes, there are existing solutions for this problem, but even choosing an existing solution from the space of security solutions to different problems is not trivial.

Comment author: gfrlog 06 January 2011 09:49:19PM 1 point [-]

Why does "some people don't know how this works" make it less trivial?