The weird thing for me is that I predicted skein would not be selected on the basis of it being the only finalist without the full 2x output capacity (which was

The weird thing for me is that I predicted skein would not be selected on the basis of it being the only finalist without the full 2x output capacity (which was a NIST requirement that DJB had bucked, and was part of the reasons cubehash had bee removed), I was so confidence in this that I bet money on it and won. :P