Are there any other good/reliable hashs which are smaller than MD5 and faster? (for purposes of checking for file corruption - not for security purposes) (preferably 16bit?)
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Jump to PostMD5 is popular because it can be implemented small and fast. Better ones are SHA256 and SHA512 hashes, which can be implemented pretty efficiently in todays' hardware. In any case, adding a salt value to permute the hash of a string is always a good idea from the security perspective.
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