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Of Crickets And Blockchain
Here’s a little trivia question: What do 5G, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and Crickets (yes, the insect!) have in common?
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Fun with Adler-32
As is often the case when reading code written by someone else, I stumbled upon some curious DIY password generation snippet that used the Adler-32 checksum function to extend users passwords in a very weird, counter-intuitive and not-exactly-safer manner. Having never really toyed with this algorithm in a context where it is assumed to be…