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SHA-3 Winner Announced

Posted by Soulskill on from the cryptic-announcement dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has just announced the winner of the SHA-3 competition: Keccak, created by Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen and Gilles Van Assche of STMicroelectronics and Michaël Peeters of NXP Semiconductors. 'Keccak has the added advantage of not being vulnerable in the same ways SHA-2 might be,' says NIST computer security expert Tim Polk. 'An attack that could work on SHA-2 most likely would not work on Keccak because the two algorithms are designed so differently.' For Joan Daemen it must be a 'two in a row' feeling, since he also is one of the authors of AES."

6 of 100 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I guess that means... by plover · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I may as well delete all the Skein rainbow tables I have been generating. Boy, did I back the wrong horse.

    --
    John
  2. Re:Excellent choice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Praise from an AC on Slashdot? Yeah, they're certainly going to be printing that out and framing it for posterity.

  3. Re:Excellent choice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Criticism from an AC on Slashdot? Yeah, I'm certainly going to be printing that out and framing it for posterity.

  4. Re:Excellent choice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sarcasm from an AC on Slashdot? Yeah, I'm certainly going to be printing that out and framing it for posterity.

  5. Re:Excellent choice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think my account has been hacked.

    You can post as me, but I'm not printing out ANYTHING. Fuck you guys.

    This wouldn't have happened if slashdot would have been using SHA-3.

  6. Re:Excellent choice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Meta on a meta from an AC on Slashdot by an AC on Slashdot? Yeah, go ahead, cue that XKCD strip...