BLAKE2 was designed by Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Samuel Neves, Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn, and Christian Winnerlein based on SHA-3 finalist BLAKE created by Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Luca Henzen, Willi Meier, and Raphael C.-W. Phan.
It uses core algorithm from ChaCha cipher designed by Daniel J. Bernstein.
Python extension module was written by Dmitry Chestnykh based on C implementation written by Samuel Neves.
The following public domain dedication applies for both C hash function implementation, extension code, and this documentation:
To the extent possible under law, the author(s) have dedicated all copyright and related and neighboring rights to this software to the public domain worldwide. This software is distributed without any warranty.
You should have received a copy of the CC0 Public Domain Dedication along with this software. If not, see http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/.
The following people have helped with development or contributed their changes to the project and the public domain according to the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication 1.0 Universal:
See also
Official BLAKE2 website: https://blake2.net