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Re:NIST Retires SHA-1 Cryptographic Algorithm by Dylan16807 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @02:34PM (#34004477)
The original padding, as bits, was 100000...0001

The new padding prepends either 01, 11, or 1111 depending on the variant of SHA-3. That way the different variants don't sometimes give the same [partial] hash.

It was weird to toss that in at the last second but there's no room for a backdoor there.

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