Re:Shut up and ship
by makmanalp on Monday August 09, 2010 @08:41PM
(#1590045)
> but implementations are slow
Well, think about this: One major reason hash functions like sha1 aren't recommended (as opposed to, say, bcrypt) for encryption is because they are optimized for speed and so it's faster to generate lookup tables or to iteratively search for the password. So unless it's slow because the implementation itself is crappy, this might actually be a good thing after all.
Well, think about this: One major reason hash functions like sha1 aren't recommended (as opposed to, say, bcrypt) for encryption is because they are optimized for speed and so it's faster to generate lookup tables or to iteratively search for the password. So unless it's slow because the implementation itself is crappy, this might actually be a good thing after all.