NIST announces SHA-3 round 2 candidates

[Jack Lloyd]

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/sha-3/Round2/submissions_rnd2.html

"""
A report summarizing NIST's selection of these candidates will be
forthcoming. A year is allocated for the public review of these
algorithms, and the Second SHA-3 Candidate Conference is being planned
for August 23-24, 2010, after Crypto 2010.
"""

Making the cut:
  BLAKE
  Blue Midnight Wish
  CubeHash
  ECHO
  Fugue
  Grostl
  Hamsi
  JH
  Keccak
  Luffa
  Shabal
  SHAvite-3
  SIMD
  Skein

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