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Re:Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions by kobeya on Sunday February 26, 2017 @12:54AM (#13735903)
For hashing large data, yes. For password derivation schemes or hash trees, no. SHA512 is only faster per byte because the block size is larger. SHA256 has faster rounds.
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Re:Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions by koolba on Sunday February 26, 2017 @07:09AM (#13736849)
If you're using SHA-anything for hashing passwords you're doing it wrong.
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Re:Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions by kobeya on Sunday February 26, 2017 @03:47PM (#13739758)
Industry standards like PBKDF2 use hash functions like SHA internally.
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