Understanding Have I Been Pwned's Use of SHA-1 and k-Anonymity
Troy Hunt
JUNE 30, 2022
It's also a slower hashing algorithm; still totally unsuitable for storing user passwords in an online system, but it can have a hit on the consuming service if doing huge amounts of calculations. Integrity doesn't matter because there's no value in modifying the source password to forge a colliding hash.
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