Dear all,
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced the winner of its five-year competition to select a new cryptographic hash algorithm, one of the fundamental tools of modern information security. The winning algorithm, Keccak (pronounced “catch-ack”), was created by Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen and Gilles Van Assche of STMicroelectronics and Michaël Peeters of NXP Semiconductors. The team’s entry beat out 63 other submissions that NIST received after its open call for candidate algorithms in 2007, when it was thought that SHA-2, the standard secure hash algorithm, might be threatened. Keccak will now become NIST’s SHA-3 hash algorithm. You can read more at http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/tech-beat/tb20121002.cfm#sha Congratulations Keccak! -- ---------------------------- Kristian Fiskerstrand http://www.sumptuouscapital.com Twitter: @krifisk ---------------------------- Bene diagnoscitur, bene curatur Something that is well diagnosed can be cured well ---------------------------- This email was digitally signed using the OpenPGP standard. If you want to read more about this The book: Sending Emails - The Safe Way: An introduction to OpenPGP security is available in both Amazon Kindle and Paperback format at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006RSG1S4/ ---------------------------- Public PGP key 0xE3EDFAE3 at http://www.sumptuouscapital.com/pgp/
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