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[Python-Dev] New hash algorithms: SHA3, SHAKE, BLAKE2, truncated SHA512

Christian Heimes christian at python.org
Sat May 28 16:44:07 EDT 2016 
On 2016-05-27 03:44, Victor Stinner wrote:
> Le 27 mai 2016 12:05 PM, "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io
> <mailto:donald at stufft.io>> a écrit :
>> BLAKE2 is an interesting one, because while SHA3 is a NIST standard
> (so it’s going to gain adoption because of that), BLAKE2 is at least as
> strong as SHA3 but is better in many ways, particularly in speed— it’s
> actually faster than MD5 while being as secure as SHA3.
> 
> BLAKE2 was part of the SHA3 competition and it was in finalists. The
> SHA3 competition is interesting because each algorithm is deeply tested
> and analyzed by many teams all around the world. Obvious vulnerabilities
> are quickly found.

Thanks Victor,

minor correction, BLAKE was a finalist in the SHA3 competition, not
BLAKE2. BLAKE2 is an improved version of BLAKE2 with additional features.

Christian
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