RIPEMD-160
- Date
- 1996 · confidence high
- Place
- Leuven, Flanders, Belgium
- Credited to
- Antoon Bosselaers, Bart Preneel y Hans Dobbertin
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A 160-bit cryptographic hash function of the RIPEMD family, designed to improve on the security of the original versions, created by Hans Dobbertin, Antoon Bosselaers and Bart Preneel.
What it led to
- Use in Bitcoin for address generation (together with SHA-256)
- An alternative standard to SHA-1 in European cryptographic applications
- Basis for the RIPEMD-256 and RIPEMD-320 variants