vincenthz/hs-cryptohash — Issue #5: Why not use existing implementations?
Author: brinchj
Created: 2011-11-08 10:16:55+00:00
State: open

Brian Gladman has a well-documented and portable versions of the SHA family hashes:
http://www.gladman.me.uk/

From what I can see, he seems qualified to implement SHA.

The Skein team also published optimized versions of their hash functions.

Why not use these tested implementations by Cryptographers instead of maintaining new ones?