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I have been so desperate for an expert-crafted standardized tree-hash. Hallelujah!

• niftich 10y ago
  Though it does not meet all your criteria -- it's not standardized by an institute -- BLAKE2 [1] also supports tree-hashing, is expert-crafted from a SHA-3 finalist, and has seen adoption in the last two years. Notably, on recent architectures, it's faster than SHA-3, SHA-256, or even SHA-1. [1] https://blake2.net/ https://blake2.net/
  • jonstewart 10y ago
    It is really the standardization that's the thing, as my application would be hashing of disk images for digital forensics purposes/evidence authentication purposes. BLAKE2 seems like a fine algorithm otherwise.