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Implement BLAKE2b checksums #2166

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@lukateras

SHA256 is rather slow at checksumming large files (tangentially related to #619), would be nice to have something that is both fast and future-proof.

Use case would be to nix-hash large (> 4GB) files to check if already present in Nix store. This takes a while with SHA256, and would probably take at least 2x less time with BLAKE2b.

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