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

Bill Cox waywardgeek at google.com
Mon Jun 8 21:26:06 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be> wrote:

> So which "blake2" are we talking about?  I understand that there
> are many variations.
>
> Anyway, I think we should add it.
>
>
> Kurt


Blake2s is 256-bit, while Blake2d is 512-bit.  These are the ones I assume
that would be best for addition.  The other two, Blake2sp and Blake2bp are
multi-threaded, and are optimized for multi-core CPUs.

Bill
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