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Yes, that's why I specifically said, "in current use." No one should be using SHA-3 hash functions. SHA-256 and SHA-1 are much slower than MD5 and very much slower than MD4. The "Getting much better" comment was in reference to speed improvements as well as security improvements (such as removal of vulnerability to length-extension attacks).



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