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Re: Updates on SRS crypto

2004-02-11 09:31:38

On Feb 11, 2004, at 11:24 AM, wayne wrote:
RC4 isn't that much slower than CRCs and, if you use a reasonable
sized IV, it is quite secure.

md5 is not much slower than crc either. Here's a nice comparison of hash functions:

http://www.cs.duke.edu/~anderson/hashing/

One question I don't know the answer to is the relative distribution properties of md5 and sha-1 on very short messages (the kinf we are discussing here).

George


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