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For SHA-3, NIST published the new standard, based on Keccak, on 5 August 2015, and which beat off competition from BLAKE (Aumasson et al.), Grøstl (Knudsen et al), JH (Hongjun Wu), and Skein (Schneier et al.). After two rounds, the final round evaluated of security, performance and hardware space. For performance, BLAKE3 basically wipes the floor its previous version (BLAKE2b) [1], and which was already faster than SHA-3. It gives the equilavent of 128 bits of security. At its core is the Bao tree mode and the original BLAKE2 method, and it has been created by Jack O’Connor, Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Samuel Neves, and Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn.
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References
[1] Aumasson, J. P., Neves, S., Wilcox-O’Hearn, Z., & Winnerlein, C. (2013, June). BLAKE2: simpler, smaller, fast as MD5. In International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (pp. 119-135). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.