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Choosing a hash function for 2030 and beyond: SHA-2 vs. SHA-3 vs. BLAKE3


As everyone knows, "temporary fixes" are nothing but temporary. Unfortunately, the same is true for cryptography: unless security is your core value-proposition, crypto algorithms are almost never updated, and that's how we end up with SHA1-hashed password in 2024 🤦‍♂️ You can be sure that most projects you started in

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