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SHA-3 Finalist Candidates Known

Posted by timothy on from the not-enough-like-line-noise dept.

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."

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  1. "password" by pgn674 · · Score: 0, Troll

    A friend of mine discovered and I verified the other day that BASE64(SHA256("password")) == XohImNooBHFR0OVvjcYpJ3NgPQ1qq73WKhHvch0VQtg=

    Is that "ohImNooB" just a coincidence? If so, then it's quite the coincidence. Taking the SHA256 of a password and converting it to BASE64 is a fairly common way of storing and displaying a password on a system. To have the representation of the word "password", which is a very noobish password to choose, contain the string "ohImNooB". Quite the coincidence indeed.

    Unless it's not a coincidence. Would that be possible?