[ossec-list] Hash algorithms

[Jonas <jonas.esp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Using straight-up MD5 or SHA-1 is not recommended, even with a salt.
Salt values mitigate one basic attack. Adaptive hashing mitigates a
more important one.

You must read
http://home.gwu.edu/~khenry/CSci381/AlternativeHashFunctions.pdf

As alternative I suggest *Tiger*. It's secure, and faster than SHA-1
as you can check here:
http://www.cryptopp.com/benchmarks.html