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

Christian Heimes christian at python.org
Sat May 28 16:44:07 EDT 2016

On 2016-05-27 03:44, Victor Stinner wrote:

Le 27 mai 2016 12:05 PM, "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io_ _<mailto:donald at stufft.io>> a écrit :

BLAKE2 is an interesting one, because while SHA3 is a NIST standard (so it’s going to gain adoption because of that), BLAKE2 is at least as strong as SHA3 but is better in many ways, particularly in speed— it’s actually faster than MD5 while being as secure as SHA3. BLAKE2 was part of the SHA3 competition and it was in finalists. The SHA3 competition is interesting because each algorithm is deeply tested and analyzed by many teams all around the world. Obvious vulnerabilities are quickly found.

Thanks Victor,

minor correction, BLAKE was a finalist in the SHA3 competition, not BLAKE2. BLAKE2 is an improved version of BLAKE2 with additional features.

Christian

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