10 What is BLAKE2b?

BLAKE (hash function) – Wikipedia

BLAKE was developed in 2008 by Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Luca Henzen, Willi Meier and Raphael C.-W. Phan. BLAKE was one of the finalists in the SHA-3 competition.

In 2012, Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Samuel Neves, Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn, and Christian Winnerlein released BLAKE2 as an evolution of BLAKE. BLAKE2 is primarily focused on further improving performance while maintaining the same security properties.

The following lengths are defined for haches and provided by GC Wizard:

  • 160 bit
  • 224 bit
  • 256 bit
  • 384 bit
  • 512 bit