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A New Hash Competition
May/June 2008 (vol. 6 no. 3)
pp. 60-62
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William E. Burr, "A New Hash Competition," IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 60-62, May/June, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MSP.2008.55,
author = {William E. Burr},
title = {A New Hash Competition},
journal ={IEEE Security and Privacy},
volume = {6},
number = {3},
issn = {1540-7993},
year = {2008},
pages = {60-62},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MSP.2008.55},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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KW - cryptographic standards
KW - hash function
KW - SHA-1
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KW - Merkle-Damg?rd
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William E. Burr, US National Institute of Standards and Technology
Since the discovery of collision attacks against several well-known cryptographic hash functions in 2004, a rush of new cryptanalytic results cast doubt on the current hash function standards. The relatively new NIST SHA-2 standards aren't yet immediately threatened, but their long-term viability is now in question. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has therefore begun an international competition to select a new SHA-3 standard. This article outlines the competition, its rules, the requirements for the hash function candidates, and the process that NIST will use to select the final winning SHA-3 standard.

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Index Terms:
cryptographic standards, hash function, SHA-1, SHA-2, SHA-3, Merkle-Damg?rd, Crypto Corner
Citation:
William E. Burr, "A New Hash Competition," IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 60-62, May/June 2008, doi:10.1109/MSP.2008.55
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