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I use SHA1 for duplicate detection on hard drives. It's more robust than MD5 and fast on modern processors. Nothing wrong with that. But I would not use it for

I use SHA1 for duplicate detection on hard drives. It's more robust than MD5 and fast on modern processors. Nothing wrong with that. But I would not use it for crypto.

kzrdude 6y ago
Time to move on to SHA-512/256 or BLAKE3
- peterhil 6y ago
  Or maybe xxHash would work for duplicate finding? https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash