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-# blake-swift
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+# blake2-swift
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+Blake2 (also known Blake2b) is a cryptographic hash and Message Authentication Code (MAC) designed by Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Samuel Neves, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn, and Christian    Winnerlein.
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+The implementation is based on the reference implementation published in the [IETF RFC7693](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7693).