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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Edward Thomson <ethomson@edwardthomson.com>,
	"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>, Adam Langley <agl@google.com>,
	keccak@noekeon.org
Subject: Re: Hash algorithm analysis
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:49:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180724204916.GA136514@aiede.svl.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwSe9BF8e0hLk9pp3FVD5LaVY5GRdsV3fbNtgzekJadyA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 12:01 PM Edward Thomson
> <ethomson@edwardthomson.com> wrote:

>> Switching gears, if I look at this from the perspective of the libgit2
>> project, I would also prefer SHA-256 or SHA3 over blake2b.  To support
>> blake2b, we'd have to include - and support - that code ourselves.  But
>> to support SHA-256, we would simply use the system's crypto libraries
>> that we already take a dependecy on (OpenSSL, mbedTLS, CryptoNG, or
>> SecureTransport).

Just to be clear, OpenSSL has built-in blake2b support.

[...]
> So I'm not a huge fan of sha256, partly because of my disappointment
> in lack of hw acceleration in releant markets (sure, it's fairly
> common in ARM, but nobody sane uses ARM for development because of
> _other_ reasons). And partly because I don't like how the internal
> data size is the same as the final hash. But that second issue is an
> annoyance with it, not a real issue - in the absence of weaknesses
> it's a non-issue, and any future weaknesses might affect any other
> choice too.

Thanks for saying this.  With this in mind, I think we have a clear
way forward: we should use SHA-256.

My main complaint about it is that it is not a tree hash, but the
common availability in libraries trumps that (versus SHA-256x16, say).
I also was excited about K12, both because I like a world where Keccak
gets wide hardware accelaration (improving PRNGs and other
applications) and because of Keccak team's helpfulness throughout the
process of helping us evaluate this, and it's possible that some day
in the future we may want to switch to something like it.  But today,
as mentioned in [1] and [2], there is value in settling on one
standard and SHA2-256 is the obvious standard today.

Thanks,
Jonathan

[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/CAL9PXLyNVLCCqV1ftRa3r4kuoamDZOF29HJEhv2JXrbHj1nirA@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://public-inbox.org/git/20180723183523.GB9285@aiede.svl.corp.google.com/

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-24 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-09 20:56 State of NewHash work, future directions, and discussion brian m. carlson
2018-06-09 21:26 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-09 22:49 ` Hash algorithm analysis brian m. carlson
2018-06-11 19:29   ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-06-11 20:20     ` Linus Torvalds
2018-06-11 23:27       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-12  0:11         ` David Lang
2018-06-12  0:45         ` Linus Torvalds
2018-06-11 22:35     ` brian m. carlson
2018-06-12 16:21       ` Gilles Van Assche
2018-06-13 23:58         ` brian m. carlson
2018-06-15 10:33           ` Gilles Van Assche
2018-07-20 21:52     ` brian m. carlson
2018-07-21  0:31       ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-07-21 19:52       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-07-21 20:25         ` brian m. carlson
2018-07-21 22:38       ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-07-21 23:09         ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-21 23:59         ` brian m. carlson
2018-07-22  9:34           ` Eric Deplagne
2018-07-22 14:21             ` brian m. carlson
2018-07-22 14:55               ` Eric Deplagne
2018-07-26 10:05                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-07-22 15:23           ` Joan Daemen
2018-07-22 18:54             ` Adam Langley
2018-07-26 10:31             ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-07-23 12:40           ` demerphq
2018-07-23 12:48             ` Sitaram Chamarty
2018-07-23 12:55               ` demerphq
2018-07-23 18:23               ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-23 17:57             ` Stefan Beller
2018-07-23 18:35             ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-07-24 19:01       ` Edward Thomson
2018-07-24 20:31         ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-24 20:49           ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2018-07-24 21:13           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-24 22:10             ` brian m. carlson
2018-07-30  9:06               ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-07-30 20:01                 ` Dan Shumow
2018-08-03  2:57                   ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-09-18 15:18                   ` Joan Daemen
2018-09-18 15:32                     ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-09-18 16:50                     ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-25  8:30             ` [PATCH 0/2] document that NewHash is now SHA-256 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-07-25  8:30             ` [PATCH 1/2] doc hash-function-transition: note the lack of a changelog Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-07-25  8:30             ` [PATCH 2/2] doc hash-function-transition: pick SHA-256 as NewHash Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-07-25 16:45               ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-25 17:25                 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-07-25 21:32                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-26 13:41                     ` [PATCH v2 " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-03  7:20                       ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-03 16:40                         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-03 17:01                           ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-03 16:42                         ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-03 17:43                         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-04  8:52                           ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-03 17:45                         ` brian m. carlson
2018-07-25 22:56                 ` [PATCH " brian m. carlson
2018-06-11 21:19   ` Hash algorithm analysis Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-21  8:20     ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-06-21 22:39     ` brian m. carlson
2018-06-11 18:09 ` State of NewHash work, future directions, and discussion Duy Nguyen
2018-06-12  1:28   ` brian m. carlson
2018-06-11 19:01 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-06-12  2:28   ` brian m. carlson
2018-06-12  2:42     ` Jonathan Nieder

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