[algogeeks] Re: Fastest hashing algorithm?

[Vijendra Singh]

You can use SHA-1 or in fact any of the SHA family depending upon ur actual requirements. as of today, both MD-5 and SHA-1 stand compromised but might prove good enough for ur application.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1

-Vijju

On 10/31/06, howa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Requirements:

A string, size up to 10 MB

I want to hash the string (without collosion, into a key with length
not longer than 255)

currently, I am using md5, I want to ask, are there any better
algorithms?

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