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Re:Maybe we shouldn't skip SHA-3 by snakeanus on Friday June 02, 2017 @11:01AM (#14470380)
> (especially for tree hashing, which makes K12 better than any other hash to hash big files).

I am aware that other modern hash functions like BLAKE2 (and maybe BLAKE/Skein?) support tree hashing, is there any reason why K12 would be better for that?

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Re:Maybe we shouldn't skip SHA-3 by baby on Friday June 02, 2017 @11:25AM (#14470561)
No not really. I cited BLAKE2bp or BLAKE2sp in the post.
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