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so after reading your comment I was curious why SHA-3 won the NIST competition, https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/projects/hash-functions/documents/sha-3_select

so after reading your comment I was curious why SHA-3 won the NIST competition, https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/projects/hash-functions/documents/sha-3_selection_announcement.pdf https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/projects/hash-functions/doc... "NIST chose KECCAK over the four other excellent finalists for its elegant design, large security margin, good general performance, excellent efficiency in hardware implementations, and for its flexibility"

Retr0id 4y ago
The real reason is that SHA-3 is more different to SHA-2 in terms of fundamental design. The SHA-3 contest was launched shortly after SHA-1 was broken, and was partly just a hedge against SHA-2 being broken too.
- xani_ 4y ago
  Or NSA decided to backdoor SHA3