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sha3 will probably get hw accel eventually. Blake2 is less likely to. It's like the dilemma between chacha20 and a stream cipher mode for aes. An argument could be made for either, depending on application specifics and available hardware.


But like its ancestor chacha, blake2 is fast on anything that has SIMD.




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