Do You Know Your Keccak From Your SHA-3, And Your SHAKE From Your KMAC
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3 min readJul 23, 2022
NIST choose Keccak as the standard for SHA-3. But, it’s all a bit confusing, as there are two main versions of this: Keccak and SHA-3. Many systems, such as Ethereum have adopted Keccak, while others go for SHA-3.
Keccak or SHA-3?
In 2006, NIST initiated the SHA-3 project, and the winner was announced in…