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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).
Here is citation for NIST announcement of 3rd (final) round candidates selection: Continue reading

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Second Round Candidates of the Cryptographic Hash Algorithm Competition Selected

NIST has selected the Second Round Candidates of the SHA-3 Competition recently. Following 14 second round candidates to continue in the competition: 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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