Re: Why BLAKE2?
flat view
From: Markus Trippelsdorf <hidden>
Date: 2017-02-27 15:04:43
On 2017.02.27 at 13:00 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
For brevity I will write `SHA' for hashing with SHA-1, using current unqualified object names, and `BLAKE' for hasing with BLAKE2b, using H<hex> object names.
Why do you choose BLAKE2? SHA-2 is generally considered still fine and would be the obvious choice. And if you want to be adventurous then SHA-3 (Keccak) would be the next logical candidate. -- Markus