Re: New hash contest by NIST, similair to AES competition

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:01:31 +0000, Jean-Luc Cooke wrote:

Whirlpool. My only beef with it is it's constructed from very similar
building blocks as AES. It would be nice if the winning hash were
constructed from different low-level operations. Other than that 1
beef, Whirlpool is my choice.


I thought there was a consensus in the 2005 workshop that, ideally (given
sufficient independent merit), more than one hash would be chosen, exactly
to mitigate the possibility of a catastrophic break of the "standard".
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