12 Kangaroos and A KitTen
Reducing security and improving performance?
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8 min readJun 11, 2019
Crypto KitTen
In a fantastic paper, Jean-Philippe (JP) Aumasson proposes that we reduce the number of rounds in SHA-3 (Keccak) from 24 to just 10 rounds, and names it KitTen (get it … “10”). This, he proposes, would create a speedup of 2.4 times. JP’s focus is that it is possible to reduce the number of rounds…
