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No, no, no. That's a criteria for password hashes, which are a totally different construction than standard cryptographic hashes. You can't brute force a cryptographic hash, practically by definition.


I must have conflated Keccak's "slow without specific hardware/extensions" with "slow on purpose against GPUs". Both are similar (why would a GPU have an operation for cryptography?) but obviously not the same thing.


The distinction being the relatively small space of possible preimages?




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