The final five entrants in the SHA-3 encryption hash run by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have been made public.
The NIST competition is part of a long-term project to develop the next generation of encryption technology. In the announcement BLAKE, Grøstl, JH, Keccak and Skein all made it through.
The NIST project started the search for SHA-3 in 2007 and has been whittling down the list for the past two years, excluding 53 entrants from some of the biggest names in...