NIST’s Plan for New Cryptographic Hash Functions
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is planning to develop one or more cryptographic “hash” algorithms through a public competition.
Due to recent attacks on the SHA-1 hash function specified in FIPS 180-2 , Secure Hash Standard, NIST is initiating an effort to develop one or more additional hash algorithms through a public competition, similar to the development process for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
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