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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-10-01 20:34:06 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-10-01 20:34:36 -0400
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Added SKEIN256 and SKEIN512 backends
SHA3 is still waiting for final standardization. Although this is looking less likely given https://www.cdt.org/blogs/joseph-lorenzo-hall/2409-nist-sha-3 In the meantime, cryptohash implements skein, and it's used by some of the haskell ecosystem (for yesod sessions, IIRC), so this implementation is likely to continue working. Also, I've talked with the cryprohash author and he's a reasonable guy. It makes sense to have an alternate high security hash, in case some horrible attack is found against SHA2 tomorrow, or in case SHA3 comes out and worst fears are realized. I'd also like to support using skein for HMAC. But no hurry there and a new version of cryptohash has much nicer HMAC code, so I will probably wait until I can use that version.
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but are not concerned about security.
* `SHA384`, `SHA384E`, `SHA224`, `SHA224E` -- Hashes for people who like
unusual sizes.
+* `SKEIN512`, `SKEIN256` -- [Skein hash](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skein_hash),
+ a well-regarded SHA3 hash competition finalist.
The `annex.backends` git-config setting can be used to list the backends
git-annex should use. The first one listed will be used by default when