Re: [dev] Checksums and Sig files for release gzip

From: Daniel Cegiełka <daniel.cegielka_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 21:43:51 +0200

wt., 13 kwi 2021 o 21:29 Sergey Matveev <stargrave_AT_stargrave.org> napisał(a):
>
> *** Mattias Andrée [2021-04-13 20:48]:
> >But interesting, even though Keccak (from which SHA-3 is
> >derived) won over BLAKE2, BLAKE2 seems to be more popular.
>
> Keccak won over "BLAKE". "BLAKE2" is reduced-round tweaked "BLAKE" version.
> BLAKE2 is very fast, having very high security margin and abilities to
> use it as a MAC, add randomization/personalization -- that it why it is
> popular.

BLAKE2 is a weakened version of BLAKE. The goal was different: files
checksums. I was using BLAKE2 in my mtree port, but output was
truncated to 24 bytes (it can be done in BLAKE2).


> --
> Sergey Matveev (http://www.stargrave.org/)
> OpenPGP: CF60 E89A 5923 1E76 E263 6422 AE1A 8109 E498 57EF
>
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