The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is conducting a competition to choose a new secure hashing algorithm, and the contest will end Friday, by which time the agency hopes to have ...

Cryptography aficionados, say hello to a new hash algorithm backed by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). Dubbed Keccak (pronounced "catch-ack"), the secure hash algorithm, ...

The advent of quantum computing poses substantial risks to conventional cryptographic mechanisms, particularly hash-based authentication and zero-knowledge identification (ZKI) protocols, which are ...