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Re:Maybe Skip SHA-3 by baby on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @09:26PM (#14457270)
Here's an answer: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/47872/why-is-kecc...

1) it forces you to allocate more memory (to do the Davies-Mayer construction)

2) it complicates the security analysis because you get collisions (if you do not use a permutation, it means you have an injective construction)

Re:Maybe Skip SHA-3 by baby on Thursday June 01, 2017 @05:47AM (#14459020)
And more from http://sponge.noekeon.org/CSF-0.1.pdf section 8.1.3

screenshot here: http://i.imgur.com/4xncceB.png