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Symmetric cryptography has come a long way since MD5. Any one of SHA-256, SHA-3/SHAKE256, BLAKE2/3 would be fine.
by rainworld 4y ago
Symmetric cryptography has come a long way since MD5. Any one of SHA-256, SHA-3/SHAKE256, BLAKE2/3 would be fine.
- gnulinux 4y agoFor the next 500 years though? I suppose (as a crypto layman) it'll be fine, but given we don't know what will be broken within the next 500 years, isn't it natural to add redundancy and use multiple hash algorithms?
- dylan604 4y agoI'd be more concerned for what equipment would be used to store/read that data in 50 years let alone 500 to make this even a viable thing to do.
- rainworld 4y agoIndeed. Hard to quantify the risk of one of these functions getting broken but it’s very low. There’s a million far more likely ways to lose that data.