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First of all we aren't talking about weaknesses in hash functions. We are talking about ways to compute hashes faster. > But is there any actual work where re

First of all we aren't talking about weaknesses in hash functions. We are talking about ways to compute hashes faster. > But is there any actual work where requiring 2 separate full checks to be worse than just one? That is, needing to verify MD5 plus SHA1 independently. One could then use both SHA1 and MD5 shortcuts.

MichaelGG 10y ago
OK, but having to use both a SHA1 and MD5 shortcut is still going to be more work than using just one of them.
- yorwba 10y ago
  But it's less work than having to compute both SHA1 and MD5 without shortcut, which is the comparison that matters.