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Sorry, why is RIPEMD-160 deprecated? I've been unable to find any supporting information as to why.

• rgbrenner 13y ago
  it appeared after sha1, receives less attention than sha1, and is slower than sha1... so why use it at all?
  • thirsteh 13y ago
    Many use it because it wasn't developed by the NSA. It is a default in TrueCrypt, for example.
    • nly 13y ago
      It's used in Bitcoin as well (after SHA-2) to shorten up addresses. Come to think of it, I think Tor uses it for .onion addresses... which they shorten to 80 bits (of preimage resistance!)