This was the problem of the century.

I keep all my passwords in MD5, and today I was making some modification to my app after reading Hibernate in Action. When looking at my password field I thought "hmm, why have this as 255 chars - nobody uses passwords that big, I'll take it down to 31".

What I was forgetting is that my passwords are stored in MD5 and not cleartext... And what I also didn't know at the time was that MD5 hashes are exactly 32 characters long.

Looking at logs I could figure out WHY 2 EXACTLY SAME hashes don't pass the one.equals(another) test... I was thinking there was a problem with Java or something...

Well, turned out they were NOT equal. DB was truncating the last character. To add to the complexity of the problem, I had caching set up for one minute, which kept all 32 chars. So it was hell trying to figure out why the hell it works half the time and the other half - it doesn't.

My mother suggested it was the jews, but I proved her wrong.

I'm sure this was meant in jest but it's actually pretty shocking. I suggest not making any more similar jokes. Some people are more easily offended than myself.

Heh, sorry didn't mean to affend anyone.

It's just that today I found this website tshirthell.com where they had a t shirt that said something like

HITLER
*picture of hitler*
(small font:)love him or hate him but Hitler killed a ton of jews

which I thought was hilarious. I really don't think most jews are offended by jew jokes, I've only heard complaints and "I'm offended" from people who aren't jews.. And I have many jewish friends (I'm half jew myself)

So, if you're a jew and you were offended - get a sense of humor, if you aren't a jew and you were offended - get a life.