Nice work! I see there is a lot of push for a faster alternative.
What I would like is an alternative that is mroe tactical: a new hash that provides strength measured in days not years, and is fast enough to deploy without even thinking about the speed. Something that is say 64bits in length, is as strong as MD5 and 10 or 100 times as fast (I'm handwaving rapidly here...). My reason for this is that many protocols need MDs in wider things like HMACs but are also protected in other ways, so using full-strength MDs is overkill. can Blake2 be wound down even further? iang On 22/12/12 05:49 AM, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote: > Folks: > > We just announced a new secure hash function: > > https://blake2.net > > I posted some arguments for why it is good over on the cryptography > mailing list, where I expect to get some good pushback: > > http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2012-December/003554.html > > I'm posting to this mailing list about it because the target use cases > for this hash function are those where SHA-3 and SHA-2 are too slow > (software implementations, small devices, big data), and where SHA-1 > and MD5 are too insecure (open environments, ad hoc membership, > valuable assets). > > Regards, > > Zooko > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
