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sha-512?

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 04, 2005 08:54 AM

Instead of SHA-256 why not just use SHA-512 for now? I think ultimatley the long term solution is a new algorithm from the ground up (as DES -> AES has and IPv4 -> IPv6 may show us).

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