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SHA1 or MD5 for web applications

A lot of people have recently started using SHA1 over MD5. I know that MD5 has it's security flaws but what other reasons is making SHA1 becoming more popular lately?

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SHA1 is also looking weak now. For new applications you might as well start with SHA-256.

Mark Byers  2009-12-18 18:37:40
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Lower chance of collisions mostly. It's better in almost every way except backwards compatibility.

cobbal  2009-12-18 18:38:07

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