Status Report on the Second Round of the SHA-3 Cryptographic Hash Algorithm Competition

Published

February 23, 2011

Author(s)

Meltem Sonmez Turan, Ray A. Perlner, Lawrence E. Bassham, William E. Burr, Dong H. Chang, Shu-jen H. Chang, Morris J. Dworkin, John M. Kelsey, Souradyuti Paul, Rene C. Peralta

Abstract

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) opened a public competition on November 2, 2007 to develop a new cryptographic hash algorithm - SHA-3, which will augment the hash algorithms currently specified in the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 180-3, Secure Hash Standard. The competition was NIST's response to advances in the cryptanalysis of hash algorithms. NIST received sixty-four submissions in October 2008, and selected fifty-one candidate algorithms as the first-round candidates on December 10, 2008, and fourteen as the second-round candidates on July 24, 2009. One year was allocated for the public review of the second-round candidates. On December 9, 2010, NIST announced five SHA-3 finalists to advance to the third (and final) round of the competition. This report summarized the evaluation and selection of the five finalists - BLAKE, Grøstl, JH, Keccak and Skein.

Citation

NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 7764

Report Number

7764

NIST Pub Series

NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

Pub Type

NIST Pubs

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https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.7764

Keywords

cryptographic hash algorithm, cryptographic hash function, cryptographic hash competition, cryptography, SHA-3 competition

Citation

Sonmez, M. , Perlner, R. , Bassham, L. , Burr, W. , Chang, D. , Chang, S. , Dworkin, M. , Kelsey, J. , Paul, S. and Peralta, R. (2011), Status Report on the Second Round of the SHA-3 Cryptographic Hash Algorithm Competition, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.7764 (Accessed October 1, 2025)