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

[Yoav Nir]

> On Jun 9, 2015, at 4:07 AM, Zooko Wilcox-OHearn <zooko at leastauthority.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 12:57 AM, Salz, Rich <rsalz at akamai.com> wrote:
>> So if you're going to replace md5sum... which one should you use?  Which ONE HASH should replace MD5?
> 
> I'd suggest blake2sp. It's currently the fastest on my machine, and I
> guess that there will often be multiple cores in systems where hash
> performance matters (i.e. hashing large files or many files).

As a replacement for md5sum (like it says in the title) - I agree.

If we also want blake for protocols (like TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_BLAKE or something), the non-parallel versions would be more suitable.

Yoav