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

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 12:19:56AM +0000, Zooko Wilcox-OHearn wrote:
> > I'd support adding 2b and 2s, in spite of the fact that the names are really really bad.  I'm less interested in seeing the parallel variants added.  FWIW.
> 
> Well, the reason I'm here is that the GNU coreutils maintainers rely
> on openssl for high-performance crypto, and blake2sp might be the best
> algorithm for the new "b2sum" tool, which I hope will replace "md5sum"
> in the toolboxes of system administrators everywhere.

It seems your b2sum currently defaults to b, not sp.


Kurt