[jira] [Created] (CODEC-296) Add support for Blake3 family of hashes

["Matt Sicker (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Matt Sicker created CODEC-296:
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             Summary: Add support for Blake3 family of hashes
                 Key: CODEC-296
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CODEC-296
             Project: Commons Codec
          Issue Type: New Feature
            Reporter: Matt Sicker
            Assignee: Matt Sicker


Brief historical context: the original Blake hash algorithm was a finalist in the SHA-3 competition. The second version, [Blake2|https://www.blake2.net/], has several variants, the most popular seem to be Blake2b and Blake2s, though there are a few others that are tuned and tweaked for different use cases. This brings us to [Blake3|https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3], the third version of the hash algorithm which unifies the variants into a single interface along with further tuned security parameters for increased performance with negligible impact on security.

Blake3 is extremely versatile and offers interfaces to use it as a message digest (hash) function, pseudorandom function (PRF), a message authentication code (MAC), a key derivation function (KDF), and an extensible output function (XOF). It is also faster than MD5 and SHA-1 (and SHA-2 and SHA-3) while remaining secure which makes it handy for less security-intensive contexts, too, like file hashing.

I've previously ported the reference public domain Rust implementation to Java for another use case, so the algorithm itself is pretty simple to add here. This library doesn't define any interfaces for these concerns, though the Java crypto API does have some equivalents for most of those use cases, but they might be overkill for this.



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