A major company has asked you to assess two similar technologies, from a big-picture view (without too much technical detail), to help them decide which alternative they should use. The general idea is for your report to: 1. Describe the two technologies (or more than two, if there are more). 2. Compare and contrast the two technologies. What are their good points and (more interestingly) their bad points or weaknesses? 3. Finally, what is your personal recommendation of which should a data-oriented company use? Explain why, perhaps by comparing their good points and bad points. If all options seem bad, feel free to recommend “none of the above”. Any two similar technologies would be fine, below is my topic: Cryptographic hash functions are a basic technology used in many encryption methods. Some hash functions are: Older but popular ones like MD5 and SHA-1 Newer ones that are supposed to be better, like BLAKE2, SHA-3, and Tiger. Is newer really better? Or are the older generation still okay?

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