Fw: NIST announces Draft Requirements and Evaluation Criteria for New Hash Algorithms

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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:03:45 -0500
From: Shu-jen Chang <shu-jen.changnist.gov>
To: shu-jen.changnist.gov
Subject: NIST announces Draft Requirements and Evaluation
Criteria for
New Hash Algorithms



NIST Wants Comments on Proposed Hash Algorithm Requirements
and
Evaluation Criteria

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is
planning a
competition to develop one or more cryptographic hash
algorithms to
augment and revise the current Secure Hash Standard
(Federal
Information Processing Standard 180-2). As a first step in
this
process, NIST is publishing draft minimum acceptability
requirements,
submission requirements, and evaluation criteria for
candidate
algorithms ( See the Federal Register Announcement on
http://www.nist.gov
/hash-function ), and requests public comment by
April 27, 2007.



		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbi
a.edu/~smb

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