> This was based on the following intuition, which has very little to do > with hashing at all: > .... > > It *seems harder* (but I'm not an expert on this kind of thing!) > .... > > Again, though, this is just intuition, > .....
Then no offense Jochim - stop suggesting it.. intuition like this is what gets us things like the PHK md5 password scheme. Look at it - fine, but don't make suggestions based on intuition.