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

[Bill Cox]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Rainer Jung <rainer.jung at kippdata.de> wrote:

> Not an expert here, but according to
>
> https://131002.net/blake/
>
> and
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAKE_%28hash_function%29
>
> the terms BLAKE-256 and BLAKE-512 were already used by BLAKE, the
> predecessor of BLAKE2.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rainer
>

I guess we could ask the main original Blake author, Jean-Philippe, if he
would mind OpenSSL renaming Blake2b and Blake2s to Blake256 and Blake512.
Jean-Philippe, would you mind?  The names Blake2b and Blake2s are both
confusing and not similar to other names in OpenSSL.  Another alternative
might be Blake2-256 and Blake2-512, but Blake256 and Blake512 will be
simpler for OpenSSL users to grok.  What do you and Zooko think?

Bill
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