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		Pacabel on March 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BLAKE2: “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” Than MD... How do you propose that new algorithms become "widely used" if nobody should use them until they are "widely used"?

dionyziz on March 22, 2014 [–]

Standardization is a way. SHA2 and SHA3 are standardized. Unfortunately, with the recent RSA shortcomings, this may no longer be trustable.

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