Keccak wins the SHA-3 competition

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SHA-3 winner has been announced. Schneier's entry of Skein did not win. :( Instead Keccak won. This is the second time a Schneier entry has made the finals and lost (the other was with Twofish who got beat out by Rijndael to become AES).

For those who don't know, SHA-3 will become the new hashing algorithm standard soon.

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