opentimestamps/python-opentimestamps

Add Support For BLAKE3

InnovativeInventor opened this issue · 1 comments

BLAKE3 is very new, shiny, and fast!

Python is planning to add it to hashlib: https://bugs.python.org/issue39298

I'm trying to quickly timestamp a few TB hard drives worth of files and the speed of BLAKE3 would be very nice to have.

Closing as "won't fix", as Python never added it. Also, SHA256 accelerator opcodes are (finally!) becoming more commonly available in CPUs, and that's likely to increase even further over time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_SHA_extensions