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 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Rainer Jung <[email protected]> > 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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