Neolander/Hashish — Issue #11: SHA-3
Author: Neolander
Created: 2012-01-05 18:18:10+00:00
State: open
Labels: Back-end, User interface

So, NIST are running this competition to determine which cryptographic hash function will replace SHA-2 as their main Secure Hash Standard. Since SHA-1 is known to have semi-working exploits and since SHA-2 is based on SHA-1, it might be worth it to add SHA-3 support to Hashish and make it the default hash once it has proven its reliability (through, say, one year without any known exploit).

Before this feature may be implemented, the competition about SHA-3 must end, and some time must be spent checking how well the winner turns out to resist attacks.