Timeline for Convert SHA-256 to SHA-1 and MD5 - Increase bit length/entropy?
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| Jul 22, 2016 at 4:43 | comment | added | Paul Draper | In the first case the 256 bit hash was rehashed. In the second case, the entire data source was hashed. That's why the second method has more entropy than the first. (This is of course assuming the data source itself had more than 256 bits of entropy to start with.) | |
| Jul 21, 2016 at 14:18 | comment | added | user | @rugk I'm glad you found it useful. | |
| Jul 21, 2016 at 13:16 | vote | accept | rugk | ||
| Jul 21, 2016 at 13:12 | comment | added | rugk | Awesome of you to provide a real-life example! | |
| Jul 21, 2016 at 11:50 | history | answered | user | CC BY-SA 3.0 |