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[Discuss] Yesterday's Cloudflare News and Online Password Managers...



Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> writes:

> On 02/24/2017 11:38 AM, Kent Borg wrote:
>> -kb, the Kent who recently decided he needed to use a hash in
>> something he's programming at work, and there is no way he would
>> have chosen SHA-1 for that, even before yesterday's news.
>
> If nothing else, I have always been bugged by the fact that SHA-1 is a
> 160-bit result. That size always seemed wrong.

160 bits was fine back in 1991.

> -kb

-derek

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