BLAKE (hash function)

BLAKE
General
Designers	Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Luca Henzen, Willi Meier, Raphael C.-W. Phan
Certification	SHA-3 finalist
Detail
Digest sizes	256 or 512 bits
Rounds	14
Speed	15 cpb on Core 2 for BLAKE-256; 10 cpb for BLAKE-512

BLAKE is a cryptographic hash function submitted to the NIST hash function competition by Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Luca Henzen, Willi Meier, and Raphael C.-W. Phan. BLAKE was chosen as one of the five finalists of the competition.

BLAKE hashes

 BLAKE-512("")
  = A8CFBBD73726062DF0C6864DDA65DEFE58EF0CC52A5625090FA17601E1EECD1B628E94F396AE402A00ACC9EAB77B4D4C2E852AAAA25A636D80AF3FC7913EF5B8

 BLAKE-512("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog")
  = 1F7E26F63B6AD25A0896FD978FD050A1766391D2FD0471A77AFB975E5034B7AD2D9CCF8DFB47ABBBE656E1B82FBC634BA42CE186E8DC5E1CE09A885D41F43451

External links

The BLAKE web site

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List Comparison Known attacks
Common functions	MD5 (compromised) SHA-1 (compromised) SHA-2 SHA-3 BLAKE2
SHA-3 finalists	BLAKE Grøstl JH Skein Keccak (winner)
Other functions	BLAKE3 CubeHash ECOH FSB Fugue GOST HAS-160 HAVAL Kupyna LSH Lane MASH-1 MASH-2 MD2 MD4 MD6 MDC-2 N-hash RIPEMD RadioGatún SIMD SM3 SWIFFT Shabal Snefru Streebog Tiger VSH Whirlpool
Password hashing/ key stretching functions	Argon2 Balloon bcrypt Catena crypt LM hash Lyra2 Makwa PBKDF2 scrypt yescrypt
General purpose key derivation functions	HKDF KDF1/KDF2
MAC functions	CBC-MAC DAA GMAC HMAC NMAC OMAC/CMAC PMAC Poly1305 SipHash UMAC VMAC
Authenticated encryption modes	CCM ChaCha20-Poly1305 CWC EAX GCM IAPM OCB
Attacks	Collision attack Preimage attack Birthday attack Brute-force attack Rainbow table Side-channel attack Length extension attack
Design	Avalanche effect Hash collision Merkle–Damgård construction Sponge function HAIFA construction
Standardization	CAESAR Competition CRYPTREC NESSIE NIST hash function competition Password Hashing Competition NSA Suite B CNSA
Utilization	Hash-based cryptography Merkle tree Message authentication Proof of work Salt Pepper

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