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Is there any reason not to just use SHA-3? It sounds like it's a real swiss army knife to hear the authors talk about it.
by aeneasmackenzie 7y ago
Is there any reason not to just use SHA-3? It sounds like it's a real swiss army knife to hear the authors talk about it.
- wongarsu 7y agoRight now it has worse library support, worse hardware support, and isn't analysed as thouroughly as SHA512/SHA256. Also SHA-3 seems to be fighting with Blake2 for popularity, it's not immediatly clear to me that SHA-3 will be popular in 10 years (a point for usage in API design etc). But those are temporary problems that might not even matter to you.
- CiPHPerCoder 7y agoThere are reasons to prefer other functions, but none of those are disqualifying marks on SHA-3. If you have SHA-3 available, just use it. Everything listed in that article is secure today and will probably be secure 10 years from now.