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by tinus_hn 2817 days ago
The hashing is a defense in depth measure to avoid handing the attacker addresses to attack on a platter. So it does make sense to use a more modern hash so it takes more than a second to brute-force the whole address space but that's all you can do really. Most of these hosts are going to be in the same subnet anyway so a smart scan is never going to take long to retrieve most addresses.