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What is SHA-3 and why did we change it?

On the 2nd of October NIST decided that SHA-3 is the new standard hashing algorithm, does this mean we need to stop using SHA-2 as it is not secure? What is this SHA-3 anyway?

asked Oct 4 '12 at 14:17

Lucas Kauffman
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