Re: hash tags

On Mar 9, 2013, at 9:56 AM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <[email protected]> wrote:

> [Discussion about MD5]
> 
> I think there's not much point in discussing MD5 in this context.
> When creating new designs, you should always use the current
> best and most widely deployed algorithm, IMO.
> 
> For Python, this is the SHA-2 family at the moment, since SHA-3 is
> not supported by Python's hashlib. MD5 is only needed to support older
> software. SHA-1 is also support by Python versions older than Python 2.5.
> 
> It seems that SHA-256 and SHA-512, both from the SHA-2 family,
> are the most popular at the moment, so I guess SHA-256 is a good
> candidate to move forward and satisfy the 80/20 rule.

Sha256 and Sha512 are generally considered equivalent in a security context and either would be a perfectly fine candidate.

> 
> Agreed ?
> 
> FWIW, I'm pretty sure, SHA-256 will be broken in 10 years from
> now as well :-)
> 
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