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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.
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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.
- BLAKE2b (or just BLAKE2) is optimized for 64-bit platforms and produces digests of any size between 1 and 64 bytes.