AMD Prepares 32-Core Naples CPUs for 1P and 2P Servers: Coming in Q2

Re:AMD Prepares 32-Core Naples CPUs for 1P and 2P Servers: C... by hvidgaard on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @02:20AM (#13818585)

The thing with SHA-1 is that we know (and have known for a decade) that is not a good cryptographic hash function. It is still, along with MD5, a good hash function if you control the input, i.e. in a hash table.

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Re:AMD Prepares 32-Core Naples CPUs for 1P and 2P Servers: C... by AYBABTME on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @10:22PM (#13826656)

There are better functions than SHA1 to use for hash tables. Candid question: really what is the use for MD5/SHA1 these days?

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Re:AMD Prepares 32-Core Naples CPUs for 1P and 2P Servers: C... by hvidgaard on Thursday March 09, 2017 @01:19AM (#13827428)

Yes, but those are widely implemented and thus available more or less everywhere. I'd rather use a slightly less ideal hash function, than use an untested one.

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