more on NIST hash competition

[Peter Gutmann]

=?UTF-8?B?SXZhbiBLcnN0acSH?= <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> writes:
>Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> http://www.csrc.nist.gov/pki/HashWorkshop/index.html
>
>I'm completely unfamiliar with the way NIST operates, but I've been wondering
>for years why they haven't organized this competition already. Do we have a
>list veteran who can shed some light on why it took them this long? My
>curiosity demands to know.

The AES competition was already a severe resource drain, running another one
for an AHS would have been prohibitive, until the clear signs that SHA was in
real trouble made it more palatable.

Peter.

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