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Re: Could SHA encode faster than MD5?by Anonymous Monk |
on Jun 23, 2020 at 21:01 UTC ( [id://11118393]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
If the only thing that you need to know is that "the data is probably different," and you expect that if it is different it will be very different, then a simple CRC-32 or CRC-64 digest is often enough. It is extremely fast. See preshing.com/20110504/hash-collision-probabilities/
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