aead / skein

The Skein hash function family based on the Threefish tweakable block cipher

The Skein hash function family

Skein is a cryptographic hash function family designed by Bruce Schneier, Niels Ferguson, Stefan Lucks, Doug Whiting, Mihir Bellare, Tadayoshi Kohno, Jon Callas and Jesse Walker.

Skein uses the tweakable block cipher Threefish in UBI chaining mode and can produce hash values of any length. There exists three Skein variants:

• Skein-256 based on Threefish-256 with a block size of 256 bit.
• Skein-512 based on Threefish-512 with a block size of 512 bit. (This variant is recommended)
• Skein-1024 based on Threefish-1024 with a block size of 1024 bit. (Very conservative security level)

Installation

Install in your GOPATH: go get -u github.com/aead/skein

skein's Issues

func() hash.Hash

Greetings!

How do I solve this problem?

	var myHash func() hash.Hash

 	if *md == "skein256" {
	myHash = skein.New256
	}

"cannot use skein.New256 (type func([]byte) hash.Hash) as type func() hash.Hash in assignment"

Sorry, but how should I transform it to func() hash.Hash?

Thanks in advance.