BLAKE3

Notes

• Fastest cryptographic hash function

• Fastest non-cryptographic hash functions are:

  • meowhash
  • t1ha
  • wyhash
  • xxhash

• rad uses BLAKE3 given that Nim supports it via nimcrypto

Limitations

• The C version of b3sum does not support multithreading:
  • https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3/issues/184
  • https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3/issues/229

Others

• CMake: https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3/blob/master/c/CMakeLists.txt
• Make: https://github.com/michaelforney/b3sum/blob/master/Makefile