http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/03/sha-3/ By John Leyden The Register 3rd October 2012 A US government agency has selected cryptographic hash function Keccak as the new official SHA-3 algorithm. The National Institute of Standards and Technology's decision to pick the nippy system as the replacement for SHA-1 and SHA-2 marks the end of a six-year competitive process. Five algorithms were left in the running at the end, including crypto-guru Bruce Schneier's Skein. Keccak was put together by cryptographers Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen, Michaël Peeters and Gilles Van Assche, who work for STMicroelectronics and NXP Semiconductors. The NIST team praised the algorithm for its "elegant design and its ability to run well on many different computing devices". The system is said to take 13 processor cycles on a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo to process each byte of data, and can be implemented in hardware. SHA-2 is used in various security technologies, from SSL and SSH to PGP and IPsec, and must be used by law in certain US government applications. Like its predecessor, Keccak converts information into a shortened "message digest", from which it is impossible to recover the original information, and thwarts attempts to generate an identical digest from two different blocks of input data. [...] -- Certified Ethical Hacker and CISSP with ExpandingSecurity.com gives the best training and support. Last 2012 CISSP and CEH starts Oct. 1! Take action now and be done before 2012 ends. Best program, best price. CISSP info signup http://www.expandingsecurity.com/product/cissp-live-online-10-week-course/ CEH info signup http://www.expandingsecurity.com/product/ceh-certified-ethical-hacker-online/ Our Live Online classes will not wreck your schedule.Received on Wed Oct 03 2012 - 23:10:36 PDT
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