Jeremy A. Hansen writes "NIST just announced their selections for algorithms going to the second round of the SHA-3 competition. Quoting: 'NIST recognized




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conclusive 64 SHA-3 seeker hash purpose submissions and accepted 51 first round applicants as meeting our minimum acceptance criteria. We have now selected 14 second round competitors to reopen in the competition. skinny about the second round seeker algorithms will be llc.view results from: wordbook | llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
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share this: here. We were pleased by the amount and quality of the cryptanalysis we received on the first round candidates, and more than a little amazed by the ingenuity of some of the attacks. ... In selecting this set of second round applicants we tried to include only algorithms that we thought had a chance of being selected as SHA-3. We were willing to extrapolate higher consummation for conservative designs with ostensibly large safety factors, but comparatively unforgiving of combative designs that were broken, or nearly broken during the course of the review. We were more willing to accept disquieting sound manual of the hash occupation if the architect had evidently scheduled



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