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How insecure is a salted SHA1 compared to a salted SHA512

SHA1 is completely insecure and should be replaced. This question is 8+ years old and times have changed: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/at-deaths-door-for-years-widely-used-sha1-function-is-now-dead/ For passwords: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2 For data: SHA3 SHA512 is more complex than SHA1, but how much security am I losing by hashing a salted password with SHA1 compared to hashing it with 512? in terms of the time it would take for

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