Thursday, October 4, 2012

Security & Hacking: Keccak is chosen to be SHA-3

Official NIST announcement http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/sha-3/winner_sha-3.html
detailed PDF announcement from NIST http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/sha-3/sha-3_selection_announcement.pdf

Bruce's comments and thoughts http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/10/keccak_is_sha-3.html Bruce made it to the final round with his entry.

Keccak website http://keccak.noekeon.org/

Interesting times, hat tip to NIST for picking a good replacement before we need one!

I wish more banks and other institutions would follow that lead, instead of general trend of not updating security and crypto until long after vulnerabilities have been exploited.

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