Nistir 7896: Third- Round Report of the SHA-3 Cryptographic Hash Algorithm Competition

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) opened a public competition on November 2, 2007, to develop a new cryptographic hash algorithm - SHA-3, which will augment the hash algorithms specified in the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 180-4, Secure Hash Standard (SHS). The competition was NIST's response to advances in the cryptanalysis of hash algorithms.