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

[Jean-Philippe Aumasson]

Hi Bill,

First of all, it's spelled "BLAKE", with capitals :-)

BLAKE-256 is the 256-bit version of BLAKE. Calling BLAKE2 BLAKE would be
confusing.

What about B2-256 and B2-512?

ccing other B2 codesigners

On Tue 9 Jun 2015 at 19:20 Bill Cox <waywardgeek at google.com> wrote:

> 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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