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<h1>RIPEMD-160</h1>
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RIPEMD-160, published in 1996, is a hash algorithm designed by Hans Dobbertin, Antoon Bosselaers, and Bart Preneel in an open academic community. The size of the output of RIPEMD-160 is 160 bits. RIPEMD-160 is a strengthened version of the RIPEMD hash algorithm
 that was developed in the framework of the European Union's project RIPE (<em style="text-align:left">RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation</em>), 1988-1992. RIPEMD-160 was adopted by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the IEC in the
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