From f66bca67ac79c6d158a566ea169552194c64bd66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: thecookingsenpai <elmastrococinero@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 16:31:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Testing with SHA1 gives positive results, also changed the
 truncation rule

---
 app/utils/hashing.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/utils/hashing.py b/app/utils/hashing.py
index 5631f480..e9ed147d 100644
--- a/app/utils/hashing.py
+++ b/app/utils/hashing.py
@@ -34,4 +34,9 @@ def create_hash(*args: str, decode=False, limit=10) -> str:
     str_ = str_.encode("utf-8")
     str_ = hashlib.sha1(str_).hexdigest()
     # REVIEW Switched to sha1 hashlib.sha256(str_).hexdigest()
-    return str_[-limit:]
+
+    # REVIEW Take the first limit/2 and last limit/2 characters
+    # This is to avoid collisions
+    return str_[:limit // 2] + str_[-limit // 2:] if limit % 2 == 0 else str_[:limit // 2] + str_[-limit // 2 - 1:]
+
+    # return str_[-limit:]