Thursday, February 28, 2019

Cryptographic Hash Function Menagerie

Here's an oversimplified survey of cryptographic hash functions: everyone used to use MD5, now they use some variation on SHA.

There's some truth to that. MD5 was very popular and remains popular years after it was proven insecure. And now, variations on SHA like SHA1 and SHA256 are commonly used. But there are a lot more cryptographic hash functions in common use.



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