[encoderer]

Woah, slow down, I think you whipped up a 4 paragraph reply before you ever got to my last sentence.

Or, go on and tell me more about all the things hashes are used for as if I just fell off the turnip truck.

This discussion is not about checksums on files. It's abotu passwords. And your "perfect hash" in your example about passwords is "freakishly fast." In fact, like the other guy that replied to me mentioned, this is the entire point of the workfactor in bcrypt, right?

Of course, bycrypt is really, really not meant for checksums. Good thing nobody was talking about checksums then.

[Xk]

When you wrote "this fictional hash" I read that as talking about the SHA-4 I made up, not the one you did.

I then didn't respond to the rest of the post because when you said "for password hashing, it's a good start" I again assumed you were talking about my hash function, which is not good for hashing. Yours would be perfectly fine.

I apologize.

[encoderer]

Apology accepted, and thank you for adding a lot to the discussion further down the page (the interesting maths related to the probability of collisions on a hashed-hash)