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oconnor663
on Nov 13, 2023
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Reasons to Prefer Blake3 over Sha256
We go over some of our reasoning around that in section 7.5 of
https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3-specs/blob/master/blak...
. An early BLAKE3 prototype actually didn't include the chunk counter (
https://github.com/oconnor663/bao/blob/master/docs/spec_0.9....
), so I'm definitely sympathetic to the use cases that wish it wasn't there. However, after publication we found out that something like a chunk counter is necessary for the security of the Bao streaming verification tool:
https://github.com/oconnor663/bao/issues/41
. It could be that there's a design that's the best of both worlds, but I'm not sure.
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