Cryptographic hashes?

Hans-Martin Mosner hmm at heeg.de
Mon Aug 11 19:12:22 UTC 2003


Andreas Raab wrote:
> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
> Can someone give me an update on what kind of cryptographic hashes we have
> available in Squeak, what their tradeoffs are (both in terms of security as
> well as speed) and what would _likely_ to be a "reasonably good choice" for
> some not-overly-schizophrenic case?

SHA is built in, and I think it's probably okay for all practical purposes.
Produces a 160-bit hash value.
Smalltalk sources for other algorithms should not be too hard to find either.

Out of curiosity: What not-overly-schizophrenic case is this?

Cheers,
Hans-Martin



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