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Re:The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1 by mzs on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @06:06PM (#21986216)
It's not about the speed, it's about the 'is it secure.'
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Re:The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1 by sicariusnoctis on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @07:38PM (#21986989)
If my amazing hash function takes 10^10^10 years to compute, it's possibly more secure than anything else listed there, but it's also quite useless.
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