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Re: more on NIST hash competition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Thu Jan 25 14:04:49 2007
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From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:30:02 +1300
=?UTF-8?B?SXZhbiBLcnN0acSH?= <krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> writes:
>Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> http://www.csrc.nist.gov/pki/HashWorkshop/index.html
>
>I'm completely unfamiliar with the way NIST operates, but I've been wondering
>for years why they haven't organized this competition already. Do we have a
>list veteran who can shed some light on why it took them this long? My
>curiosity demands to know.
The AES competition was already a severe resource drain, running another one
for an AHS would have been prohibitive, until the clear signs that SHA was in
real trouble made it more palatable.
Peter.
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