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A Competition To Replace SHA-1

Posted by kdawson on from the securing-government-bits dept.

SHA who? writes "In light of recent attacks on SHA-1, NIST is preparing for a competition to augment and revise the current Secure Hash Standard. The public competition will be run much like the development process for the Advance Encryption Standard, and is expected to take 3 years. As a first step, NIST is publishing draft minimum acceptability requirements, submission requirements, and evaluation criteria for candidate algorithms, and requests public comment by April 27, 2007. NIST has ordered Federal agencies to stop using SHA-1 and instead to use the SHA-2 family of hash functions."

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  1. FYI by trifish · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This "news" is several months old.

    Oh well I know, it's Slashdot.

    1. Re:FYI by Goaway · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      But Slashdot just recently duped the original news of the crack from several years back, so it's totally topical!

  2. Re:Schneier Proposed this in 2005 by Kadin2048 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're evidently just less interesting than Bruce Schneier.

    Don't feel bad; same goes for most of us.

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