The Hash Function Blake

by Raphael C Phan, Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Willi Meier, et al.

Book Overview

This is a comprehensive description of the cryptographic hash function BLAKE, one of the five final contenders in the NIST SHA3 competition, and of BLAKE2, an improved version popular among developers. It describes how BLAKE was designed and why BLAKE2 was developed, and it offers guidelines on implementing and using BLAKE, with a focus on software implementation.

In the first two chapters, the authors offer a short introduction to cryptographic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3662525976
• ISBN13: 9783662525975
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"