Re: Hash compression.
From: Kristian Gjøsteen (kristiag+news_at_item.ntnu.no)
Date: 03/31/05
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:44:22 +0000 (UTC)
Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>The subject may sound a bit odd, but I need to compress SHA-1 output.
>Let's assume in my environment it will be safe to use less that 20
>bytes from the hash.
You need to be more specific.
>First thing that comes to mind is to just use first few bytes and ignore
>the rest, but I don't think this is the best we can do.
Why should you need to do "better" than just truncating the output?
You need to explain what you want to do in more detail.
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