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Re:DarkJPEG by ChuckMcM on Monday July 22, 2013 @07:30PM (#6087194)
Well it's got to be super sekrit so it needs the best SHA algorithm, what better than the one that even the NSA hasn't picked yet? :-)
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Re:DarkJPEG by p4bl0 on Monday July 22, 2013 @08:31PM (#6087422)
I thought Keccak has already been chosen to be SHA-3, is it not the case?
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Re:DarkJPEG by yid on Monday July 22, 2013 @07:36PM (#6087219)
Oh I'm sure the NSA has already picked it ;) NIST just hasn't yet...
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Re:DarkJPEG by harshreality on Monday July 22, 2013 @08:43PM (#6087460)
Keccak was picked by NIST last October as the winner of the SHA-3 competition.
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