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by SloopJon 1942 days ago
After a programmer changed PBKDF2 to use SHA512 instead of SHA-1, I asked whether it made sense to use SHA256 instead for this very reason. With SHA extensions on Intel (pretty rare, incidentally), and the cryptography extension on ARM, I wondered if SHA256 (with more iterations) might put defenders at less of a disadvantage relative to attackers than SHA512.