On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Niels Möller <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] (Niels Möller) writes:
>
>> I think it may be easiest to write some new code based on the pseudocode
>> description at http://keccak.noekeon.org/specs_summary.html.
> For naming: I called it sha3_256 (since in nettle "sha256" is sha2. I
> guess we should have named it sha2_256 back then). Any other
> suggestions?

sha3_256, sounds clear enough.

> I haven't looked into other types of uses. E.g, does hmac-sha3 make
> sense? The Keccak paper mentions keyed modes of operation, maybe that
> would be preferable.

Maybe it is better to wait and see how it is used as a MAC in protocols then.

> I put the interface declarations in sha3.h. I think it makes for better
> consistency if we split the current sha.h into sha1.h and sha2.h (and
> then we can keep a deprecated sha.h including both, for backwards
> compatibility).

Sounds good.

regards,
Nikos
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