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SHA-1 was designed as a cryptographic hash functions, they are puprposely slow. No, SHA-1 is not as fast as functions from the article.
by IsTom 14y ago
SHA-1 was designed as a cryptographic hash functions, they are puprposely slow. No, SHA-1 is not as fast as functions from the article.
- pjscott 14y agoYou've got it backwards; cryptographic hash functions are designed to be as fast as possible without giving up their cryptographic properties. If you need a slow hash (e.g. for password storage), you use something like bcrypt that's designed to be slow.