Now From Bruce Schneier, the Skein Hash Function

An anonymous reader writes "Bruce Schneier and company have created a new hash function called Skein. From his blog entry: 'NIST is holding a competition to replace the SHA family of hash functions, which have been increasingly under attack. (I wrote about an early NIST hash workshop here.) Skein is our submission (myself and seven others: Niels Ferguson, Stefan Lucks, Doug Whiting, Mihir Bellare, Tadayoshi Kohno, Jon Callas, and Jesse Walker). Here's the paper."

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Bruce should go to Washington

[multiOSfreak]

Bruce is the friggin' man. He ought to get some kind of advisory role in the next administration. I think his views on security in general would help straighten out a lot of FUD...assuming that anyone in Washington would actually listen to him, that is. :)