Hi, thanks for keeping in sync with the world events on hashing, especially crypto hashing. I saw happenings from the mentioned PR, but couldn't really follow closely. Could you please tell, what the current impediments on this work are? Please see to rebase the patch to the latest master to ease the evaluations.
Regards Anatol On Thu, 2021-02-25 at 05:07 +0100, Hans Henrik Bergan wrote: > BLAKE3 is a very fast cryptographically secure hash algorithm, > when i run this implementation > https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/6358 > against ext/hash/bench.php on an i7-8565U, it's competing against > adler32 > in performance, and it's significantly faster than every other > cryptographic hash (~2.6 times faster than md5 ! and ~4.6 times > faster than > sha3-256) > it's also the latest iteration of the BLAKE hash, which was a > SHA3-finalist, > more info about it can be found here: > https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3 > > any chance of getting BLAKE3 supported in php? it'd be a good fit for > projects seeking "the fastest cryptographically secure hash", > and with Tiger having near-collisions and SHA2 being vulnerable to > length-extension, i think that's currently sha3. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
