SHA-3: Deep Dive
SHA-3 is the odd one out in the SHA family. Unlike SHA-1 and SHA-2 (which share the same NSA-designed Merkle-Damgård structure), SHA-3 was selected through a public competition and uses a completely different design called Keccak. This post explores the entire SHA-3 family, including its unique extendable-output functions (XOFs).
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