A couple of weeks ago I attended to a summer school where one of the teachers was Bart Preneel; he's sooo cool. He gave some classes about how to formally proof crypto algorithms. The classes were interesting, but when I look at his home page I found out a couple of things about him which really impressed me.
He's one of the creator of RIPEMD-160. He says that RIPE-MD should be preferred to SHA-1 because of the way it was developed. In fact it happens that RIPE-MD was developed by a framework of European cryptographers and the whole process was public, while RSA was secretly developed by an American private company.
Well, I have to admit that I completely agree with him, so I propose to use RIPE-MD instead of SHA-1.
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