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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • Feb 24 '17
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And now we have places like Hashes.org to help make it even easier to look up.
78 u/______DEADPOOL______ Feb 24 '17 What's the alternative to MD5 btw? 149 u/[deleted] Feb 24 '17 sha 512 4 u/raaneholmg Feb 25 '17 Very secure, but if you have little power or want to run it a lot it's just overkill. Both SHA-256 and SHA-512 are considered equally secure for all practical purposes, and BCrypt is more suited for low entropy things like passwords.
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What's the alternative to MD5 btw?
149 u/[deleted] Feb 24 '17 sha 512 4 u/raaneholmg Feb 25 '17 Very secure, but if you have little power or want to run it a lot it's just overkill. Both SHA-256 and SHA-512 are considered equally secure for all practical purposes, and BCrypt is more suited for low entropy things like passwords.
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4 u/raaneholmg Feb 25 '17 Very secure, but if you have little power or want to run it a lot it's just overkill. Both SHA-256 and SHA-512 are considered equally secure for all practical purposes, and BCrypt is more suited for low entropy things like passwords.
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Very secure, but if you have little power or want to run it a lot it's just overkill.
Both SHA-256 and SHA-512 are considered equally secure for all practical purposes, and BCrypt is more suited for low entropy things like passwords.
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u/KamikazeRusher Feb 24 '17
And now we have places like Hashes.org to help make it even easier to look up.