On 05/27/2016 11:31 AM, Daniel Holth wrote: >
BLAKE2 is important, since it removes the last objection to replacing MD5 - speed - that has made it hard for cryptography fans to convince MD5 users to upgrade.
I have had to stick to MD5 for performance reasons (2 seconds in MD5 or 9.6 seconds in SHA256, IIRC) in scenarios that did not require an SHA*. Having BLAKE2 around wouldn't be a necessity, but if it shipped with newer versions of Python eventually there would be a commit switching the underlying hash function.
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