designed to calculate a digest of huge amounts of data in as short a time as possible.
That's a weakness, not a strength. If you can only calculate 100 hashes per second, it will take a lot longer to crack a password than if you can calculate 100 000 hashes per second.
That's a weakness, not a strength. If you can only calculate 100 hashes per second, it will take a lot longer to crack a password than if you can calculate 100 000 hashes per second.