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I have always been fascinated by Hash Functions. Modern hash functions are incredibly fast and unbelievably secure (crypto hashes). Also, equally important is how hashes have adopted to the usecases. We are intentionally developing slow hashes (BCrypt, Argon2id) with memory, time tradeoff to slow down hash generation as a security measure. One of the fascinating corners of Computers

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