NIST Opens Competition for a New Hash Algorithm

Invisible Pink Unicorn writes "The National Institute of Standards and Technology has opened a public competition for the development of a new cryptographic hash algorithm, which will be called Secure Hash Algorithm-3 (SHA-3), and will augment the current algorithms specified in the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 180-2. This is in response to serious attacks reported in recent years against cryptographic hash algorithms, including SHA-1, and because SHA-1 and the SHA-2 family share a similar design. Submissions are being accepted through October 2008, and the competition timeline indicates that a winner will be announced in 2012."

SHA2?

[Anonymous Coward]

I know SHA0 and SHA1 are broken but SHA2? I thought they're still secure to use, especially the SHA2-512. What I am missing?

What would happen if...

[caluml]

What would happen if you wrote a program to randomly create algorithms? Most of them would be rubbish, but occasionally you'd hit gold. It must be possible for computers to create formulas that "add up" - i.e. that work?

Re:New Hash Algorithm Submission #1

[Archangel Michael]

First off, Touche. I love a good ribbing ... :-D

1) Never been tried.
2) What's wrong with this?
3) Sad, isn't it?
4) Huh?
5) Again haven't been tried in a while
6) I actually believe GVMT Roll in some of these things
7) No Cherry Picking here
8) Whatever
9) Whatever
10) Too many people being (D) or (R) because of Fear and Fear.

Lets just deal with #1

Free Markets are easy to control. Corporate Charters are given by the GVMT, why aren't they revoked more often? Why aren't assets seized? Why aren't boards of directors arrested and charged for lack of proper stewardship?

Much of the problems seen in the free market isn't the fault of free markets. It is the fault of interference when it isn't needed, and non-interference when it is needed. Indeed, there hasn't really been a "free market" in 150 years or so. Closest we have right now is the Internet, and with Congress getting involved it's only going to ruin it.

We don't need more laws, we need more responsibility.