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How much slower would you estimate it being?


1MB of data will have 16384 SHA 256 blocks. So that's roughly the slowdown I would expect, minus the time it takes to initialize the algorithm for a particular message.

That's not that interesting by itself, but it is interesting to think about how this would affect computing the hashes on GPUs.


And how high can you crank the work factor for, say, bcrypt?




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