[issue47095] Deprecate blake2's tree hashing feature

Change by Christian Heimes : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +30153 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/32059 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue47095] Deprecate blake2's tree hashing feature

Gregory P. Smith added the comment: In the short term we should prefer libb2 linkage when available. As for deprecation, it'd be useful to research how often the options going away are used in code in PyPI packages and in Github repos to understand the deprecation impact. The PyPI landscape

[issue47095] Deprecate blake2's tree hashing feature

New submission from Christian Heimes : Python's blake2 implementation provides hashing, MAC (key, salt, personalization), variable length output, and tree hashing [1]. All features except for tree hashing are provided by OpenSSL 3.0.0 and newer [2]. It is unlikely that OpenSSL will get tree h