[Python-Dev] New hash algorithms: SHA3, SHAKE, BLAKE2, truncated SHA512 (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Fri May 27 16:03:36 EDT 2016


Le vendredi 27 mai 2016, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> a écrit :

The curent patch is 1.2MB for SHA-3 - that's pretty heavy for just a few hash functions, which aren't in any wide spread use yet and probably won't be for quite a few years ahead.

Oh wow, it's so fat? Why is it so big? Can't we use a lighter version?

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