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Re:SHA-512 is 1.5x faster than SHA-256 on 64-bit platforms by loeg on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @08:13PM (#13547179)
Yep. Taking advantage of SHA512's superior performance while still producing a 256 bit result is the raison d'être of SHA-512/256.
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Re:SHA-512 is 1.5x faster than SHA-256 on 64-bit platforms by meta_AU on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @10:57PM (#13547981)
Well... only if you ignore the advantages of immunity to length extension.
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