Time for new hash standard

Russell Nelson nelson at crynwr.com
Mon Sep 20 14:23:46 EDT 2004


 >  Luckily, there are alternatives. The National Institute of Standards and
 > Technology already has standards for longer - and harder to break - hash
 > functions: SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512. They're already
 > government standards, and can already be used. This is a good stopgap, but
 > I'd like to see more.

http://cr.yp.to/antiforgery.html#hash127

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