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And the SHA-3 title goes to .....Keccak
In response to a number of attacks on SHA , NIST started to look for the successor to SHA-2, figuring that it was likely that it to may fall. To date that hasn't occurred and SHA-512 still looks strong. The competition proceeded and was whittled down from 64 candidates over a number of rounds. Yesterday NIST annouced the winner of the SHA-3 competition Keccak http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/sha-3/winner_sha-3.html Keccak (pronounced catch-ack) was developed by: Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen, Michaël Peeters and Gilles Van Assche. More details on the actual algorithm can be found here http://keccak.noekeon.org/. What does it mean for us? Well you will start seeing SHA-3 folded into FIPS 180-4. You'll start to see the algorithm becoming available within the various security products that require hashing functions. Until then and possible still even then you can use SHA-512. Cheers Mark H	Mark 391 Posts ISC Handler
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