RIPEMD
- Date
- 1992 · confidence high
- Place
- Leuven, Flanders, Belgium
- Credited to
- Antoon Bosselaers, Bart Preneel y Hans Dobbertin
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Family of cryptographic hash functions developed within the European RIPE project, with variants such as RIPEMD-128 and RIPEMD-160, the latter still used in applications such as Bitcoin.
What it led to
- hash functions used in Bitcoin (RIPEMD-160)
- European cryptography standards
- data integrity verification
- digital signatures and security protocols