On Apr 22, 2012, at 2:00 11AM, David Adamson wrote:
> 5. It is not just my opinion that NIST made a mistake by not staying
> on the initial goal SHA-3 to be SIGNIFICANTLY more efficient than
> SHA-2. However, I think that actually that mistake will be used by
> some of the organizations that I have mentioned in order to raise
> their international reputation and some of them will push for a hash
> standard that industry will prefer more than SHA-2 and SHA-3.
The question is not whether there should be a hash function significantly
faster than SHA-3, it's whether or not anyone knows how to do it. NIST
wanted to stick with that goal, but there weren't enough (possibly
weren't any; I'm not sure) submissions that were also secure enough.
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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