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Re:It's Dangerous, a Python cryptographic signing module by jacques_chester on Sunday June 10, 2012 @07:26AM (#4090781)
To clarify very slightly, use SHA-256, SHA-384 or SHA-512 instead.

Sometime soon I believe SHA-3 will be chosen and we'll all be able to move onto that.

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Re:It's Dangerous, a Python cryptographic signing module by fluffyllemon on Sunday June 10, 2012 @08:56AM (#4090919)
For those interested, NIST (National Institue of Standards and Technoology) announced a competition to find candidates for the SHA-3 algorithm back in November 2007:

"NIST also plans to host a final SHA-3 Candidate Conference in the spring of 2012 to discuss the public feedback on these candidates, and select the SHA-3 winner later in 2012." [http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/sha-3/Round3/index.html]

The final SHA-3 Candidate Conference was held March 22-23, so they should be picking the winner any day now.

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