MinIO's erasure coded backend uses high speed [HighwayHash](https://github.com/minio/highwayhash) checksums to protect against Bit Rot.

## How are drives used for Erasure Code?

	case BLAKE2b512:
		b2, _ := blake2b.New512(nil) // New512 never returns an error if the key is nil
		return b2
	case HighwayHash256:
		hh, _ := highwayhash.New(magicHighwayHash256Key) // New will never return error since key is 256 bit
		return hh
	case HighwayHash256S:
		hh, _ := highwayhash.New(magicHighwayHash256Key) // New will never return error since key is 256 bit
		return hh
	default:

type BitrotAlgorithm uint

const (
	// SHA256 represents the SHA-256 hash function
	SHA256 BitrotAlgorithm = 1 + iota
	// HighwayHash256 represents the HighwayHash-256 hash function
	HighwayHash256
	// HighwayHash256S represents the Streaming HighwayHash-256 hash function
	HighwayHash256S
	// BLAKE2b512 represents the BLAKE2b-512 hash function
	BLAKE2b512
)