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For a person with only rudimentary knowledge of cryptography, why do they want a faster algorithm? I was under the impression that slower -> better. Is it simpl
by harshpotatoes 16y ago
For a person with only rudimentary knowledge of cryptography, why do they want a faster algorithm? I was under the impression that slower -> better. Is it simply that an algorithm that takes 10ms is slow enough to deter brute forcing, while one that takes 1 second starts to affect the user and possibly the host?
- ghshephard 16y agoDepends on what you are attempting to accomplish. As always, wikipedia has a great entry on this, and what hash functions are useful for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function You may be confusing storing Passwords, which have gotten a lot of talk from our local resident cperciva - see http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_strengthening http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_strengthening.