Hey, #digipres folks, what algorithms do you use for periodic fixity checks on data at rest (esp. if stored in the cloud)?

CRC32 is tempting, because it's much faster than MD5 (and thus presumably cheaper in terms of compute, emissions, and money). However, I get the impression that it's not much used for this purpose. Is that because of collision worries? Not being cryptographically secure? Something else?

@linguistory Unless you're actually handling sensitive data, which would attract hashcode-matching forged data, I'm not worried about cryptographic-requirements on the hash.

For integrity checking.
According to Reto K., mac seems to have hardware support for SHA - outspeeding MD5. Not so on PCs.

On my notebook, MD5 is faster than CRC32, btw. (0,08 vs 0,136s)