Who created the BLAKE cryptographic hash function?
Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Luca Henzen, Willi Meier, and Raphael C.-W. Phan entered BLAKE into the 2008 National Institute of Standards and Technology competition.
Questions about BLAKE (hash function)
Short answers, pulled from the story.
When was BLAKE2 announced by its creators?
On the 21st of December 2012, Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Samuel Neves, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn, and Christian Winnerlein announced BLAKE2.
What happened to BLAKE in the SHA-3 standardization process?
BLAKE reached the final five candidates in 2012 but lost the competition to Keccak which became the SHA-3 standard.
How does BLAKE3 improve upon previous versions like BLAKE2?
Jack O'Connor, Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Samuel Neves, and Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn introduced BLAKE3 on the 9th of January 2020 to support unlimited parallelism through SIMD instructions and multithreading.
Where is BLAKE2 used in modern software systems?
BLAKE2 appears in the Noise Protocol Framework used by WhatsApp and WireGuard while Linux kernel version 5.17 replaced SHA-1 with BLAKE2s for entropy pool hashing in 2021.