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| author | Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> | 2016-08-28 23:15:37 -0400 |
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| committer | Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com> | 2016-08-29 11:15:37 +0800 |
| commit | a2bf0ea1706f501b44b538b9a14270657a1b92de (patch) | |
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Mention that blake2 is not vulnerable to length-extension attacks (#3118)
* Mention that blake2 is not vulnerable to length-extension attacks
* SHA is sort of like a word, in the sense that I want the spellcheck to shut up about it
* rephrase
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diff --git a/docs/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes.rst b/docs/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes.rst index b0e9c16a..fd5f35d9 100644 --- a/docs/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes.rst +++ b/docs/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes.rst @@ -120,7 +120,9 @@ SHA-2 family BLAKE2 ~~~~~~ -`BLAKE2`_ is a cryptographic hash function specified in :rfc:`7693`. +`BLAKE2`_ is a cryptographic hash function specified in :rfc:`7693`. BLAKE2's +design makes it immune to `length-extension attacks`_, an advantage over the +SHA-family of hashes. .. note:: @@ -224,3 +226,4 @@ Interfaces .. _`Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions`: http://valerieaurora.org/hash.html .. _`BLAKE2`: https://blake2.net +.. _`length-extension attacks`: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_extension_attack |