The Hash Function BLAKE

• Main Authors: Aumasson, Jean-Philippe (Author), Meier, Willi (Author), Phan, Raphael C.-W (Author), Henzen, Luca (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Information Security and Cryptography,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer security.; Data encryption (Computer science).; Algorithms.; System safety.; Computer Science.; Data Encryption.; Systems and Data Security.; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity.; Security Science and Technology.

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 impl...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Preliminaries
• Specification of BLAKE
• Using BLAKE
• BLAKE in Software
• BLAKE in Hardware
• Design Rationale
• Security of BLAKE
• BLAKE2
• Conclusion
• References
• App. A, Test Vectors
• App. B, Reference C Code
• App. C, Third-Party Software
• Index.