Re: New hash contest by NIST, similair to AES competition



Unruh wrote:
Jean-Luc Cooke <jlcooke@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Performance is an important goal, not as important as security.

Depends. I am sure that I could design a totally secure hash which goes at
10 bytes per second. And I guarentee that noone will ever use it.

Somebody might want it for hashing passwords.

--Mike Amling
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