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by remcob 2238 days ago
I'm confused. Supercop is a benchmark for cryptographic hash functions, but SMHasher is a test for non-cryptographic hash functions. The use cases list cryptography, but also universal hash functions which are generally not crypto-grade. It compares itself to the SHA hashes, but only has 64 bit output.

Is Beamsplitter supposed to be cryptography grade or not?

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It's not, at least not now it seems. It's just seeing if you can use an S-box design to create a "universal" hash.
No. It's a quality hash, like crypto hashes, but of those one of the slowest ones. Extremely slow, like Siphash. But it's useful for Javascript, I guess.