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