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NIST has selected the Third (Final) Round Candidates of the SHA-3 Competition

NIST has selected five SHA-3 candidate algorithms to advance to the third (and final) round: BLAKE, Grøstl, JH, Keccak, Skein. Selection was announced during December 2010. What do you think, which algorithm will win competition and become new SHA-3 standard? You can vote in poll on this blog (right upper corner).
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MD5 Collisions

It seems that bad days came for MD5 and those who based hashes on it. It is possible to create two executable programs with different functionalities with identical MD5 hash. Therefore, it is possible to create malicious executable which has … Continue reading

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NIST – A New Hash Competition Update

I had already written the post about NIST Competition for New Cryptographic Hash Function on my blog. Here are updates based on article by William E. Burr, “A New Hash Competition”, IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 6,  no. 3,  pp. 60-62,  … Continue reading

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