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furrbear ([personal profile] furrbear) wrote2011-03-02 02:30 pm

For the Code and Crypto Geeks

Status Report on the Second Round of the SHA-3 Cryptographic Hash Algorithm Competition

"On December 9, 2010, NIST announced five SHA-3 finalists to advance to the third (and final) round of the competition. This report summarizes the evaluation and selection of the five finalists – BLAKE, Grøstl, JH, Keccak and Skein."