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The Pinouts Book

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Re: The Pinouts Book

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Why make this a book when it could be a web page where you could just search a part to find it's pinout? I don't see the advantage of adding a linear order to it.

Also it's almost 2022, can we finally stop using MD5? If you want something boring I'd recommend SHA256.

Re: The Pinouts Book

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Why make this a book when it could be a web page where you could just search a part to find it's pinout? I don't see the advantage of adding a linear order to it. Also it's almost 2022, can we finally stop using MD5? If you want something boring I'd recommend SHA256.

What should I use if I want an exciting hash function?

Re: The Pinouts Book

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post #4

Why make this a book when it could be a web page where you could just search a part to find it's pinout? I don't see the advantage of adding a linear order to it. Also it's almost 2022, can we finally stop using MD5? If you want something boring I'd recommend SHA256.

What should I use if I want an exciting hash function?

Modulo 2?

Re: The Pinouts Book

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So much great work but form over function: no color coding, minimal labels, not web based, not mobile friendly.

How nice would it have been to have something uniform and usable. Like ground 5v, 12v always with consistent colors so you can read it really quickly.

Re: The Pinouts Book

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Why make this a book when it could be a web page where you could just search a part to find it's pinout? I don't see the advantage of adding a linear order to it. Also it's almost 2022, can we finally stop using MD5? If you want something boring I'd recommend SHA256.

> can we finally stop using MD5

While this is no reason not to use something else, I would also use newer & safer hash functions by default, MD5 is still perfectly fine for protecting against accidental corruption in storage or transit. Just don't use it if your protection model needs to consider deliberate changes.

If you want to be extra paranoid, IIRC SHA256 outputs the full state so some types of length extension attack are still possible (though massively less _practical_ than against MD5) so perhaps use SHA384 or SHA224 (which are essentially truncated SHA512/SHA256 respectively), or SHA3 (none of its variants have the whole-state property), as your default choice.

Re: The Pinouts Book

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Why make this a book when it could be a web page where you could just search a part to find it's pinout? I don't see the advantage of adding a linear order to it. Also it's almost 2022, can we finally stop using MD5? If you want something boring I'd recommend SHA256.

Has pinouts.ru gone down? Doesn't seem to be.

Re: The Pinouts Book

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post #4

Why make this a book when it could be a web page where you could just search a part to find it's pinout? I don't see the advantage of adding a linear order to it. Also it's almost 2022, can we finally stop using MD5? If you want something boring I'd recommend SHA256.

What should I use if I want an exciting hash function?

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