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Re:Linus on Git and SHA-1 by manquer on Sunday February 26, 2017 @10:05AM (#13737509)
Would MD5 also not satisfy all the availablity and standardization problems you mentioned just as well as SHA-x ? and also meet other non security requirements of git just as well ?

So why SHA-1 over MD5 which probably is move available and order of magnitude faster ? what problems MD5 has outside of its security that SHA-1 does not ?

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Re:Linus on Git and SHA-1 by pvg on Sunday February 26, 2017 @10:13AM (#13737541)
So why SHA-1 over MD5 which probably is more available and order of magnitude faster?

This actually ends up not being true. Try

    openssl speed md5
    openssl speed sha1
On a somewhat recent Intel CPU.
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