Keccak is the SHA-3 Winner

In a recent press release, the NIST has announced that the Belgian candidate Keccak has won the SHA-3 competition. The goal of the SHA-3 competition was to select a cryptographic hash function and to standardize it. It was initiated after the sequence of attacks against many popular designs, such as MD5, initiated in 2004 by … Continue reading Keccak is the SHA-3 Winner