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chriszarate / supergenpass

A free bookmarklet password generator.
https://chriszarate.github.io/supergenpass/
GNU General Public License v2.0
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why have md5 and sha1 option #66

Closed weepy closed 9 years ago

weepy commented 9 years ago

seems a bit unceccessary to have both. ? Can't you just pick the best one ? e.g. SHA-2 ?

weakish commented 9 years ago

Because MD5 is faster than SHA512?

weepy commented 9 years ago

Surely the speed is irrelevant since there's only one operation that takes milliseconds

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Because MD5 is faster than SHA512?

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chriszarate commented 9 years ago

SGP has been around awhile. When it first came out, MD5 was the only option. I've since added SHA-512, but MD5 is kept as default since many users (including myself) have used it for years.