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

[Hubert Kario]

On Tuesday 09 June 2015 10:20:47 Bill Cox 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?

we'll soon get sha3-256 and sha3-512 (among others), "BLAKE2-256" (or to 
continue the lower case naming scheme - blake2-256) doesn't look bad compared 
to those

-- 
Regards,
Hubert Kario
Quality Engineer, QE BaseOS Security team
Web: www.cz.redhat.com
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkyňova 99/71, 612 45, Brno, Czech Republic
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