(from linked resources) > Keccak won the SHA-3 competition, and became the FIPS 202 standard on August 5, 2015. All the other contenders lost. I don't think m

(from linked resources) > Keccak won the SHA-3 competition, and became the FIPS 202 standard on August 5, 2015. All the other contenders lost. I don't think many professionals would agree with this view of cryptographic competitions. > Being too late to take part in the fight to become SHA-3, it just stood on its own awkwardly. Again with the wording... SHA-3 is not an epic battle for blood and honour. Acting as if a NIST competition is a public fight is rather disconcerting. > It is only in 2013 that SHA-2 joined Intel's set of instructions, along with SHA-1... Technically true, but only now -- four years later -- desktop processors were released supporting the SHA extensions, and none of these are from Intel so far.