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Re:Linux Kernel RNG is now Blake2 instead of SHA1 and 3x faster by giantrobot on Thursday December 30, 2021 @08:43PM (#29743888)
> Why they didn't go with BLAKE3, I can't say.

Maybe people just liked it better that way?

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Re:Linux Kernel RNG is now Blake2 instead of SHA1 and 3x faster by iruoy on Thursday December 30, 2021 @08:53PM (#29743940)
BLAKE3 is written in Rust wile BLAKE2s is written in C. That is probably a lot easier to push through.

It also seems to be almost as fast according to the BLAKE3 specs PDF (page 11).

https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3-specs/blob/master/blak...

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Re:Linux Kernel RNG is now Blake2 instead of SHA1 and 3x faster by Pxtl on Thursday December 30, 2021 @09:01PM (#29743993)
Giantrobot was going for a They Might Be Giants song reference
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Re:Linux Kernel RNG is now Blake2 instead of SHA1 and 3x faster by aidenn0 on Friday December 31, 2021 @12:33AM (#29745289)
TMBG was a cover; It was The Four Lads originally I believe
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Re:Linux Kernel RNG is now Blake2 instead of SHA1 and 3x faster by UI_at_80x24 on Thursday December 30, 2021 @09:27PM (#29744182)
I picked up on that reference too. I was about to type it up when I saw your comment. I think it went over a lot of heads.
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Re:Linux Kernel RNG is now Blake2 instead of SHA1 and 3x faster by giantrobot on Thursday December 30, 2021 @09:45PM (#29744304)
Well, the singers might be giants after all.
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Re:Linux Kernel RNG is now Blake2 instead of SHA1 and 3x faster by cclearwater on Thursday December 30, 2021 @08:58PM (#29743976)
BLAKE3 has a C implementation including many SIMD implementations. The C implementation only lacks multi-threading which BLAKE2 does not have.
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Re:Linux Kernel RNG is now Blake2 instead of SHA1 and 3x faster by its_bbq on Thursday December 30, 2021 @10:45PM (#29744650)
It's BLAKE2, though BLAKE3 was hopeful,

but it just BLAKE2, BLAKE3 got a nope

SHA1's a long time gone, that crypto's a slowpoke

Why did BLAKE3 and SHA1 get the works?

That's nobody's business, even Turks!

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Re:Linux Kernel RNG is now Blake2 instead of SHA1 and 3x faster by johnisgood on Friday December 31, 2021 @04:25PM (#29752676)
claps :D
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Re:Linux Kernel RNG is now Blake2 instead of SHA1 and 3x faster by kingcharles on Thursday December 30, 2021 @09:34PM (#29744222)
Don't. Think. Posts. Below. Got. Joke.
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