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Date:   Mon, 27 Feb 2017 15:37:47 +0100
From:   Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
To:     Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Why BLAKE2?
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On 2017.02.27 at 13:00 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> 
> For brevity I will write `SHA' for hashing with SHA-1, using current
> unqualified object names, and `BLAKE' for hasing with BLAKE2b, using
> H<hex> object names.

Why do you choose BLAKE2? SHA-2 is generally considered still fine and
would be the obvious choice. And if you want to be adventurous then
SHA-3 (Keccak) would be the next logical candidate.

-- 
Markus