From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 14:37:47 GMT
Subject: Re: Why BLAKE2?
Message-ID: <20170227143747.GB297@x4>
In-Reply-To: <22708.8913.864049.452252@chiark.greenend.org.uk>

On 2017.02.27 at 13:00 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> 
> For brevity I will write `SHA' for hashing with SHA-1, using current
> unqualified object names, and `BLAKE' for hasing with BLAKE2b, using
> H<hex> object names.

Why do you choose BLAKE2? SHA-2 is generally considered still fine and
would be the obvious choice. And if you want to be adventurous then
SHA-3 (Keccak) would be the next logical candidate.

-- 
Markus