And Then There Were Five: Finalists Advance in NIST's SHA-3 Cryptography Competition NIST News (01/05/11) Chad Boutin
as it appeared in the January 10, 2010 edition of ACM TechNews.
The five finalists for the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST's) competition to find a new cryptographic hash algorithm standard have until Jan. 16 to make minor modifications to their algorithms. NIST selected BLAKE, Grostl, JH, Keccak, and Skein in December, based on public feedback and an internal review of the 14 candidates that advanced to the second round of the competition. Blake was submitted by Jean-Philippe Aumasson of Nagravision and other researchers from Switzerland and the United Kingdom; Grostl by a team from the Technical University of Denmark and TU Graz; JH by Hongjun Wu; Keccak by a team that includes researchers from STMicroelectronics and NXP Semiconductors; and Skein by Bruce Schneier and other researchers. Cryptographers worldwide will have a year to find weaknesses in the final algorithms. NIST will select the winner, to be called SHA-3, in 2012, and it will be used to augment the hash algorithms currently specified in Federal Information Processing Standards 180-3, Secure Hash Standard. View Full Article
