nicholas-jordan/GreenDroid — Issue #4: hashing functions ( methods ) 
Author: nicholas-jordan
Created: 2011-10-29 02:22:05+00:00
State: open
Labels: prototyping, sanity checks

spare me about how secure MD-5 ~ it can be "broken" in two seconds with real crypto-graphic attacks by someone who knows what they are doing - we will go to SHA-256 as soon as I learn how to put files up as I am reluctant to put git on somebody else 's machine

The performance numbers for a single-threaded implementation on an Intel Core 2 1.83 GHz processor under Windows Vista in 32-bit mode serve only as a rough point for general comparison.

On 64-bit machines, SHA-512 is significantly faster than SHA-256