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sooryan / blake2.md
Last active February 2, 2025 10:36
A quick summary of blake2, a cryptographic hash function

BLAKE2

  • BLAKE2 is an improved version of the SHA-3 finalist BLAKE, and was designed by a team of experts in cryptanalysis, implementation, and cryptographic engineering; namely Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Samuel Neves, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn and Christian Winnerlein.

  • BLAKE2s (the one checksum currently uses) computes a message digest that is 256 bits long, and represented as a 64-character hexadecimal number, e.g. 4264cb256d94533b6e152da59256638bc6adfda3efc5550d7607d4e6e45592fc.

Types

  • BLAKE2b (or just BLAKE2) is optimized for 64-bit platforms and produces digests of any size between 1 and 64 bytes.
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jboner / latency.txt
Last active March 3, 2025 02:26
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD