On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a good reason to prefer SHA-1? > > Both have weaknesses allowing one to construct a collision (with > considerable effort)
Considerable effort? I can create an MD5 collision in a few minutes on my home computer. Is there anything even remotely like this for SHA-1? > MD5 is shorter and in my experience about 25% faster to compute. > > Personally I've tended to view MD5 as more than good enough in offline > analyses. For offline analyses, there's no need to change the online database tables. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
