Re: Question about hashing algorithms
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Re: Question about hashing algorithms

From: <Crypto@S.M.S>
Date: Sat Aug 27 2005 - 00:07:55 CEST



David Wagner wrote:



>>Are any hashing algorithms that are secure for short data and have


>>short signatures?  As I understand it, SHA-1, MD5, etc. were pretty


>>much designed to work for any size of data.  Sometimes that seems like


>>overkill, though.


> 


> 


> What's wrong with overkill?  (a serious question)


> 



Overkill is a wonderful idea, but many in this newsgroup view it as 


"inefficient".


Received on Thu Sep 29 21:51:02 2005