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



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.

-kb



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