AVPreserve has published a new white paper, "What's the Real Impact of
SHA-256? A Comparison of Checksum Algorithms", available for free download
at http://www.avpreserve.com/avpsresources/papers-and-presentations/

Though SHA-256 is considered a stronger algorithm, MD5 is often more
frequently adopted because of its faster processing times. We ran tests
comparing actual processing speeds of the two algorithms, with some
interesting results suggesting that in some situations the difference may
be negligible, and that there are other issues which more significantly
impact computing resources needed for generating and verifying checksums.

Regards,
Alex
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Alex Duryee
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