Reply to post: Re: This is why I use multiple hashes

'First ever' SHA-1 hash collision calculated. All it took were five clever brains... and 6,610 years of processor time

Tomato42
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Re: This is why I use multiple hashes

Using two hashes doesn't work to increase security above the security of the stronger one: https://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/archive/2004/CRYPTO/1472/1472.pdf

Just use SHA-256, it has been in all cryptographic libraries for over a decade already!

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