highwayhash | Native Go version of HighwayHash with optimized assembly | Cryptography library

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

HighwayHash is a pseudo-random-function (PRF) developed by Jyrki Alakuijala, Bill Cox and Jan Wassenberg (Google research). HighwayHash takes a 256 bit key and computes 64, 128 or 256 bit hash values of given messages. It can be used to prevent hash-flooding attacks or authenticate short-lived messages. Additionally it can be used as a fingerprinting function. HighwayHash is not a general purpose cryptographic hash function (such as Blake2b, SHA-3 or SHA-2) and should not be used if strong collision resistance is required. This repository contains a native Go version and optimized assembly implementations for Intel, ARM and ppc64le architectures.