HashCompare | Compare various different Hashing Algorithms | Hashing library

HashCompare is a Go library typically used in Security, Hashing applications. HashCompare has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

At minio we use a hash algorithm in order to detect bit rot for data blocks that are stored on disk. Thus far we have been using the Blake2b algorithm but recent developments have led us to do new research for a faster algorithm for bit rot protection. Initially we looked into SipHash as well as Poly1305. Obviously Poly1305 is not a "traditional" hash function but since it has nice performance properties and could potentially fit our use case (if used in a particular way), we decided to test it out as well. As a last algorithm we have analysed HighwayHash which has been finalized as of January 2018. It can produce checksums in 64, 128, or 256 bit sizes and significantly outperforms other hashing techniques allowing for speeds over 10GB/sec on a single core (as compared to roughly 1 GB/sec on a single core for Blake2b). We have developed a Golang implementation with accelerations for both Intel and ARM.