BLAKE3 VS blake3

Compare BLAKE3 vs blake3 and see what are their differences.

BLAKE3

the official Rust and C implementations of the BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function (by BLAKE3-team)

blake3

An AVX-512 accelerated implementation of the BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function (by lukechampine)
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BLAKE3 blake3
36 2
4,555 330
1.7% -
8.1 1.9
12 days ago 15 days ago
Assembly Assembly
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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BLAKE3

Posts with mentions or reviews of BLAKE3. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-13.

blake3

Posts with mentions or reviews of blake3. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-27.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing BLAKE3 and blake3 you can also consider the following projects:

xxHash - Extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm

Hashids.java - Hashids algorithm v1.0.0 implementation in Java

JohnTheRipper - John the Ripper jumbo - advanced offline password cracker, which supports hundreds of hash and cipher types, and runs on many operating systems, CPUs, GPUs, and even some FPGAs [Moved to: https://github.com/openwall/john]

highwayhash - Fast strong hash functions: SipHash/HighwayHash

blake3 - Pure Go implementation of BLAKE3 with AVX2 and SSE4.1 acceleration

libsodium - A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library.

secureio - An easy-to-use XChaCha20-encryption wrapper for io.ReadWriteCloser (even lossy UDP) using ECDH key exchange algorithm, ED25519 signatures and Blake3+Poly1305 checksums/message-authentication for Go (golang). Also a multiplexer.

STM32-Bootloader - STM32 bootloader example that can jump to 2 apps.

Cryptography-Guidelines - Guidance on implementing cryptography as a developer.

meow_hash - Official version of the Meow hash, an extremely fast level 1 hash

hashit - A cross platform tool to compute hashes of files quickly. Similar to hashdeep.