From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Subject: Re: BPF hash algo (Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v7 3/6] random: use SipHash in place of MD5) Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 22:18:18 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1482425969.2673.5.camel@stressinduktion.org> <585CF6A3.1050107@iogearbox.net> <1482490762.3353.2.camel@stressinduktion.org> <585D11BF.60903@iogearbox.net> Reply-To: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Andy Lutomirski , Daniel Borkmann , Alexei Starovoitov , "kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com" , "Theodore Ts'o" , Netdev , LKML , Linux Crypto Mailing List , David Laight , Eric Dumazet , Linus Torvalds , Eric Biggers , Tom Herbert , Andi Kleen , "David S. Miller" , Jean-Philippe Aumasson To: Hannes Frederic Sowa Return-path: List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > Factoring out sha3 Per the other thread, you probably don't actually want SHA3, because it's slow in software. You want SHA2. If you want something faster and better, then Blake2 is most certainly the way to go. I'll be submitting some patches in a month or so adding Blake2 for future use in the tree. Jason