BLAKE

1 The algorithm

• Author(s): Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Luca Henzen, Willi Meier, Raphael C.-W. Phan
• Website: http://131002.net/blake/
• NIST submission package: BLAKE.zip, BLAKEUpdate.zip

Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Luca Henzen, Willi Meier, Raphael C.-W. Phan - SHA-3 proposal BLAKE

,2008

http://131002.net/blake/blake.pdf
Bibtex

Author : Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Luca Henzen, Willi Meier, Raphael C.-W. Phan
Title : SHA-3 proposal BLAKE
In : -
Address :
Date : 2008

2 Cryptanalysis

Type of Analysis	Hash Function Part	Hash Size (n)	Parameters/Variants	Compression Function Calls	Memory Requirements	Reference
free-start collision	hash	224/256	2.5 rounds	2n/2-16	-	Ji,Liangyu
free-start collision	hash	384/512	2.5 rounds	2n/2-32	-	Ji,Liangyu
preimage	hash	224/256	2.5 rounds	2n-15	-	Ji,Liangyu
preimage	hash	384	2.5 rounds	2355	-	Ji,Liangyu
preimage	hash	512	2.5 rounds	2481	-	Ji,Liangyu
near-collision	compression function	256	4 rounds (nb. 6-9)	242	-	Guo,Matusiewicz

A description of this table is given here.

Li Ji, Xu Liangyu - Attacks on Round-Reduced BLAKE

,2009

http://eprint.iacr.org/2009/238.pdf
Bibtex

Author : Li Ji, Xu Liangyu
Title : Attacks on Round-Reduced BLAKE
In : -
Address :
Date : 2009

Jian Guo, Krystian Matusiewicz - Round-Reduced Near-Collisions of BLAKE-32

,2009

http://www.jguo.org/docs/blake-col.pdf
Bibtex

Author : Jian Guo, Krystian Matusiewicz
Title : Round-Reduced Near-Collisions of BLAKE-32
In : -
Address :
Date : 2009