New submission from Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn: (Disclosure: I'm one of the authors of BLAKE2.)
Please include BLAKE2 in hashlib. It well-suited for hashing long inputs (e.g. files), because it is substantially faster than SHA-3, SHA-2, SHA-1, or MD5 while also being safer than SHA-2, SHA-1, or MD5. BLAKE2 and/or its relatives, BLAKE, ChaCha20, and Salsa20, have gotten extensive cryptographic peer review. It is widely used in modern applications and widely supported in modern crypto libraries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAKE_%28hash_function%29#BLAKE2_uses). Here is the official reference implementation: https://github.com/BLAKE2 Here are some Python modules (wrappers or implementations): * https://github.com/buggywhip/blake2_py * https://github.com/dchest/pyblake2 * https://github.com/darjeeling/python-blake2 ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 263679 nosy: Zooko.Wilcox-O'Hearn, dstufft priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: add BLAKE2 to hashlib _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26798> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
