BLAKE2 Claims Faster Hashing Than SHA-3, SHA-2 and MD5

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @06:18AM from the loose-ends-may-appear-under-the-microscope dept.

hypnosec writes "BLAKE2 has been recently announced as a new alternative to the existing cryptographic hash algorithms MD5 and SHA-2/3. With applicability in cloud storage, software distribution, host-based intrusion detection, digital forensics and revision control tools, BLAKE2 performs a lot faster than the MD5 algorithm on Intel 32- and 64-bit systems. The developers of BLAKE2 insist that even though the algorithm is faster, there are no loose ends when it comes to security. BLAKE2 is an optimized version of the then SHA-3 finalist BLAKE."

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ORAC by MickyTheIdiot · 2012-12-25 06:24 · Score: 4, Funny

He was always good with codes...
I don't trust new, untried crypto. by SuricouRaven · 2012-12-25 06:24 · Score: 5, Funny

Give it, oh, five more versions.
Re:links to NIST by Zero__Kelvin · 2012-12-25 06:57 · Score: 2, Funny

Yes. I hate optimized versions of things. Why does everyone think it's better just because they made it better?

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