Valerie Aurora has a nice post showing the lifetime of cryptographic hash functions. You can see them all following the same pattern over time. You don't want

Valerie Aurora has a nice post showing the lifetime of cryptographic hash functions. You can see them all following the same pattern over time. You don't want to be on the bleeding edge, but also should avoid the trailing edge. http://valerieaurora.org/hash.html http://valerieaurora.org/hash.html