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Apologies if this is a duplicate, I’m having trouble even to find the right words for it.

As far as I am aware, password authentication usually works in a way that the server stores a hash of the password rather than the password itself. When the user authenticates, a hash of the password is created again and compared with the existing hash. The concrete risks with this approach are:
* Someone would find out the original password
* Someone would find out a collision (a phrase whose hash is the same as that of the original password). Because the server only knows the hash, it cannot distinguish between the original password and a collision.

The mitigate these risks, the following steps are usually taken:
* The hash should be long, because the longer the hash the less collisions there are.
* A salt is used to avoid hash table attacks (there might be a database of precalculated hashes of common passwords, and it would be fast to do a reverse lookup of a hash there).
* A hash function is used that consumes a lot of resources (for example computing time or memory) so that a brute force attack can only calculate a limited number of hashes per time.
* The hash itself is kept private so that reverse attempts cannot even be made.

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I have a use case that is slightly different. I provide a web app where a URL slug basically acts as the passphrase. Whoever knows the URL of a document can access it. The URL slug can be defined by the user, and it can also be changed for an existing document. The URL slug is stored in plain text on the server.

I would like to introduce a function to my app where a read-only link for a document can be shared. When users open this link, they can access the document but not edit it. My concrete requirements are:
* The read-only slug should be generated, the user should not have to configure it.
* When the URL slug of a document is changed, its read-only link changes as well, so its previous read-only link stops working.
* When the URL slug of a document is changed back, previous read-only link should start working again.
* Ideally, the read-only slug should not be incredibly long to avoid the URLs becoming too ugly. I’m thinking of a maximum length of 16–20 characters.
* The main security risk to avoid is the possibility to calculate the main URL slug from the read-only slug.

My thought was to use a hash of the main URL slug as the read-only slug. My thought is to salt the hash with one immutable salt per document (so that when the URL slug is changed back the previous hash will also be restored). I am wondering now which hash function to use.

When I look for recommendations online, I usually find Argon2id and scrypt recommended. These are quite slow (by design), and people usually recommend against faster algorithms such as SHA-256. I’m wondering whether in my specific use case it would be safe to use a faster hash function. Specifically, my risks differ from the usual password hashing use case in that there is no risk of collisions. The original “passphrase” (URL slug) must be known to access the read-write view of the document.

Because of the lack of risk of collisions, it appears to me that using a shorter hash and a faster hash function would be acceptable in my case. I am thinking to use SHA-256 and use the first 20 characters of its base-64 encoded hash. Does this seem reasonable or is there something wrong in my thinking?

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