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A comment on BitTorrent v2 (2020). Parent comment

Re:BitTorrent v2 (2020) by r1ch on Monday January 10, 2022 @12:54PM (#29878656)
The choice to use SHA256 is surprising to me given that there are a number of other hash functions such as the BLAKE family that are explicitly designed to have arbitrary output sizes.
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Re:BitTorrent v2 (2020) by ttybird2 on Monday January 10, 2022 @01:29PM (#29879211)
This feature of the (newer?) members of the BLAKE family would not help at all in this case.
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