saltstack / saltstack/salt

[FEATURE REQUEST] Support BLAKEx cryptographic hashes in the file module

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Since Mar 23, 2022.

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Description

The BLAKE2 family of cryptographic hash algorithms outperforms SHA2/3 by a factor of 2 (according to my tests with a 267M file) while at the same time claiming to be as secure.

It would thus be nice to have support for it in the file module.

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