There are better cryptographic hash functions (e.g. Blake2) than SHA1 that are even faster. Check out the "results" slide of this slide deck for the cycles per

There are better cryptographic hash functions (e.g. Blake2) than SHA1 that are even faster. Check out the "results" slide of this slide deck for the cycles per byte table: https://blake2.net/acns/slides.html https://blake2.net/acns/slides.html