Submission + - NIST Announces Contest to Replace SHA-1 Algorithm
mplex writes: From the article:
'The National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced a public competition to pick a new cryptographic hash algorithm that would become the new federal information processing standard. This evaluation process is expected to run a minimum of three years.'
This is overdue given the known weaknesses with SHA-1 and it's variants
'The National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced a public competition to pick a new cryptographic hash algorithm that would become the new federal information processing standard. This evaluation process is expected to run a minimum of three years.'
This is overdue given the known weaknesses with SHA-1 and it's variants
