3 ms·
>(Also: if he's going to truncate a hash, he use SHA-512, which will be faster on 64-bit platforms) BLAKE2 is faster still! It's also at least as secure as SHA
by mappu 10y ago
>(Also: if he's going to truncate a hash, he use SHA-512, which will be faster on 64-bit platforms)
BLAKE2 is faster still! It's also at least as secure as SHA-3, and produces any choice of output size up to 512bit.
- stouset 10y agoI'm a fan of blake2, but SHA-2 is the conservative choice here given the sheer amount of cryptanalysis it's been subjected to.