tsalim--- via devel wrote:
Hello! I am Tanveer Salim and am a Computer Engineering Student from Texas Tech University. I am currently writing a standard user-space implementation of KangarooTwelve.
What is missing in this introduction is: what is KangarooTwelve?
A search engine points me to: https://keccak.team/kangarootwelve.html which explains: | KangarooTwelve is a fast and secure extendable-output function (XOF), the | generalization of hash functions to arbitrary output lengths. Derived from | Keccak, it aims at higher speeds than FIPS 202's SHA-3 and SHAKE | functions, while retaining their flexibility and basis of security.
Please keep in mind that you are talking here to a community of mostly distribution packagers, where not everybody is a crypto expert.
Kevin Kofler