SHA-2
Amateurs and pros vie to build new crypto standard 10 November, 2008 10:53:00
The American National Institute of Standards and Technology has organised a contest to find a new cryptographic hash algorithm to replace SHA-2 (Secure Hash Algorithm - 2).Fifteen-year-old Peter Schmidt-Nielsen spent only a month working on his submission, but he thinks he's come up with something "unusual and new." Never mind that he's up against some of the most famous cryptographers in the world.
