Find a replacement for pyblake2b python library

Preliminary investigation:

the repo pyblake2 has been archived on Sept 2020 so it is no longer worked on
the current version of pyblake2 is working for python versions up to 3.10

for python 3.11 and above, pyblake2 cannot be installed and the following error is returned:

(loris-mri-py311) lorisadmin@cecile-dev:/var/www/loris$ pip install pyblake2
Collecting pyblake2
Using cached pyblake2-1.1.2.tar.gz (126 kB)
Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: pyblake2
Building wheel for pyblake2 (setup.py) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× python setup.py bdist_wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [17 lines of output]
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_ext
  building 'pyblake2' extension
  creating build
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-311
  gcc -pthread -B /home/lorisadmin/miniconda3/envs/loris-mri-py311/compiler_compat -DNDEBUG -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -fPIC -O2 -isystem /home/lorisadmin/miniconda3/envs/loris-mri-py311/include -fPIC -O2 -isystem /home/lorisadmin/miniconda3/envs/loris-mri-py311/include -fPIC -DBLAKE2_COMPRESS_AUTO=1 -I/home/lorisadmin/miniconda3/envs/loris-mri-py311/include/python3.11 -c blake2b_impl.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-311/blake2b_impl.o
  gcc -pthread -B /home/lorisadmin/miniconda3/envs/loris-mri-py311/compiler_compat -DNDEBUG -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -fPIC -O2 -isystem /home/lorisadmin/miniconda3/envs/loris-mri-py311/include -fPIC -O2 -isystem /home/lorisadmin/miniconda3/envs/loris-mri-py311/include -fPIC -DBLAKE2_COMPRESS_AUTO=1 -I/home/lorisadmin/miniconda3/envs/loris-mri-py311/include/python3.11 -c blake2s_impl.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-311/blake2s_impl.o
  gcc -pthread -B /home/lorisadmin/miniconda3/envs/loris-mri-py311/compiler_compat -DNDEBUG -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -fPIC -O2 -isystem /home/lorisadmin/miniconda3/envs/loris-mri-py311/include -fPIC -O2 -isystem /home/lorisadmin/miniconda3/envs/loris-mri-py311/include -fPIC -DBLAKE2_COMPRESS_AUTO=1 -I/home/lorisadmin/miniconda3/envs/loris-mri-py311/include/python3.11 -c pyblake2module.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-311/pyblake2module.o
  pyblake2module.c: In function ‘PyInit_pyblake2’:
  pyblake2module.c:699:27: error: lvalue required as left operand of assignment
    699 |     Py_TYPE(&blake2bType) = &PyType_Type;
        |                           ^
  pyblake2module.c:703:27: error: lvalue required as left operand of assignment
    703 |     Py_TYPE(&blake2sType) = &PyType_Type;
        |                           ^
  error: command '/usr/bin/gcc' failed with exit code 1
  [end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for pyblake2
Running setup.py clean for pyblake2
Failed to build pyblake2
ERROR: Could not build wheels for pyblake2, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

In the short term, we can recommend installing python 3.9 or 3.10 but we will need to find a replacement for the library that works for all python versions.

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