> On Aug 15, 2016, at 1:12 PM, Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote: > > Add BLAKE2 to hashlib > --------------------- > http://bugs.python.org/issue26798 > https://github.com/tiran/cpython/commits/feature/blake2 > > BLAKE2 is a fast and powerful hash algorithm. It's as secure as SHA-2 > family, faster than MD5 and has built-in features like MAC support, > variable output length, salting and personalization. Donald uses BLAKE2 > for PyPI. The patch was refused on python-dev because it introduces too > much new code.
This in particular is something I’m very hoping will land. I’m hoping to transition PyPI over to primarily using blake2 (though will need others for backwards compatibility) and not having blake2 in the stdlib makes this much less feasible. — Donald Stufft _______________________________________________ Security-SIG mailing list Security-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/security-sig
