The National Institute of Standards and Technology is planning a public competition to develop one or more cryptographic "hash" algorithms, it said Tuesday.
"Because serious attacks have been reported in recent years against cryptographic hash algorithms, including SHA-1, NIST is preparing the groundwork for a more secure hash standard," the organization, a federal agency within the U.S. Commerce Department's Technology Administration, said on its Web site.
Any newly approved algorithm is meant for federal use or to revise the current Secure Hash Standard, NIST said on its site.
As a first step, the ageny is looking for comments on a draft for minimum acceptability requirements, submission requirements and evaluation criteria for candidate algorithms.
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