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SHA-3 Finalist Candidates Known
Skuto writes "NIST just announced the final selection of algorithms in the SHA-3 hash competition. The algorithms that are candidates to replace SHA-2 are BLAKE, Grøstl, JH, Keccak and Skein. The selection criteria included performance in software and hardware, hardware implementation size, best known attacks and being different enough from the other candidates. Curiously, some of the faster algorithms were eliminated as they were felt to be 'too fast to be true.' A full report with the (non-)selection rationale for each candidate is forthcoming."
Our lawyers won't let us convert our svn repositories to git since git uses SHA-1, which is known to be vulnerable to collisions. Hopefully, they pick a SHA-3 soon!
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
what if they were optimized? would sleep(10) make them finalists?
That's funny, but SHAKEs ("elder") are arabic, SHAs ("king") are persian/iranian. There is a difference and they get mad when you confuse them. They all look alike to me, but whatever.
For those of us that didn't read the article, wikileaks revealed that the SHA has terminal cancer and will die soon. That's why they're looking for a new SHA-3. The SHA is kind of like the Dalai Lama, but with a unix greybeard. I'm glad they've narrowed down the candidates. Hopefully, the next one will bring peace in the middle east.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Sheik Yerbouti?
Use them all, and XOR the results together to get your final hashvalue.
That way, you're safe unless they're all broken, right?