Algorithm
Cryptography: just do not!
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2012-10-16
- Technology, Algorithm, Cryptography, Development, don't, encryption, hashing, homegrown, philosophy, software, technology
Software developers regularly attempt to create new encryption and hashing algorithms, usually to speed up things. There is only one answer one can give in this respect: Here is a short summary of reasons why you should never meddle in cryptography. Cryptography is mathematics, very advanced mathematics There are only a few good cryptographers and ...
Read MoreSHA-3 is there!
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2012-10-04
- Technology, Algorithm, competition, hash, hashing, news, NIST, SHA, SHA-3
NIST has announced the end of the Secure Hash Algorithm competition the day before yesterday, naming Keccak as the winner and making it the SHA-3 algorithm. The complete announcement from NIST is here. One thing of note is that since the algorithm was developed by STMicroelectronics and NXP Semiconductors, the algorithm is heavily optimized for ...
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