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The problem wasn't the difficulty of adding a better hash algorithm. The lousy hash was kept around to maintain compatibility with network clients that didn't support the new algorithms.
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The problem wasn't the difficulty of adding a better hash algorithm. The lousy hash was kept around to maintain compatibility with network clients that didn't support the new algorithms.