Hi, brian m. carlson wrote: > I know this discussion has sort of petered out, but I'd like to see if > we can revive it. I'm writing index v3 and having a decision would help > me write tests for it. Nice! That's awesome. > To summarize the discussion that's been had in addition to the above, > Ævar has also stated a preference for SHA-256 and I would prefer BLAKE2b > over SHA-256 over SHA3-256, although any of them would be fine. > > Are there other contributors who have a strong opinion? Are there > things I can do to help us coalesce around an option? My advice would be to go with BLAKE2b. If anyone objects, we can deal with their objection at that point (and I volunteer to help with cleaning up any mess in rewriting test cases that this advice causes). Full disclosure: my preference order (speaking for myself and no one else) is K12 > BLAKE2bp-256 > SHA-256x16 > BLAKE2b > SHA-256 > SHA-512/256 > SHA3-256 so I'm not just asking you to go with my favorite. ;-) Jonathan
