For work, I was going to store some hashed tokens in a database. I was going to keep it simple and go with HMAC-SHA256 for it but having recently read Jean-Philippe Aumasson’s book “Serious Cryptography” I remembered that BLAKE2 should be quicker: BLAKE2 was designed with the following ideas in mind: … It should be faster than all previous hash standards Cool, I thought, let’s consider BLAKE2 then. First, let’s write a simple benchmark to see just how much faster BLAKE2 would be t...
