[openssl-dev] [openssl.org #3897] request: add BLAKE2 hash function (let's kill md5sum!)

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 04:39:36PM +0000, Zooko Wilcox-OHearn via RT wrote:
> 
> One of the coreutils maintainers suggested that we should ask OpenSSL
> to add BLAKE2, because coreutils itself will probably just use a
> portable C implementation, but it would use an optimized
> implementation if openssl provided it. Here's that thread:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2015-06/msg00011.html

So which "blake2" are we talking about?  I understand that there
are many variations.

Anyway, I think we should add it.


Kurt