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Like the sibling says, speed is not really related to hash security. Either the hash is good at any speed or it’s broken. Speed is important if you’re hashing often. Systems that hash often, in my experience, tend to have a stronger security posture than systems that use bearer tokens. So… fast strong hashing is good for applications because it enables good crypto to be applied more thoroughly. And that’s why we use Blake3, fast strong hash/kdf/xof that we can use anywhere (from powerful servers to wasm) without much of a second thought.