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This introductory chapter presents cryptographic hash functions and their most common applications. It then describes the context of this book, namely NIST’s SHA3 competition, and presents a short review of BLAKE’s performance and unique properties.
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Aumasson, JP., Meier, W., Phan, R.CW., Henzen, L. (2014). Introduction. In: The Hash Function BLAKE. Information Security and Cryptography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44757-4_1
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