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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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