Over the past year and a half I've had it drummed into me that fast hashing is bad and slow hashing is good. If this is so, why have they optimised this new hashing algorithm to be as fast as possible?
I'm not sure how reduced memory requirements are a benefit to encryption. Are there really any low end systems still in use today that actually have issues with memory usage? Even $150 notebooks come with 1 gig of ram. This seems more like it would help save ram on interception devices like the Narus Device or the huge datacenters owned by the NSA, which have a huge issue with storing all the data required to intercept and decrypt eavesdropped communications reliably.
A little off topic, but since it's on the page: Is it only me or does "mebibyte" simply look wrong?<p>You can't just decide that people aren't supposed to say "megabyte" anymore