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weak-crypto-hash

Detect weak digests applied directly to secret-like values

Severity
warning
Confidence
medium
Analyzer
syn-ast
Default policy
Opt-in

Tags

  • heuristic
  • security

Framework requirements

No framework requirement.

Limitations

  • Syntactic analysis does not have rustc name resolution or inferred type information.

Remediation

Use a security-appropriate primitive and keep password hashing deliberately slow.

Fix capability: guidance