On 2 October an algorithm called Keccak was named the winner of the Secure Hash Algorithm-3 (SHA-3) competition, run by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg ...

Therefore, we believe that migration from SHA-1 to the secure SHA-2 or SHA-3 hash algorithms should be done sooner than previously planned." ...

All this effort is necessary because the current standard–the Secure Hash Algorithm 2 (SHA-2)–is starting to show its age.

SHA-1, or Secure Hash Algorithm 1, was introduced by the National Security Agency in 2002. It has been used in SSL certificates, encrypted communications and code revision-control systems.

Microsoft plans to stop trusting Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1) certificates next month for 'all major Microsoft processes and services,' according to a Wednesday announcement.

This is the next step in our continued efforts to adopt Secure Hash Algorithm 2 (SHA-2), which better meets modern security requirements and offers added protections from common attack vectors." ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology retired one of the first widely used cryptographic algorithms, citing vulnerabilities that make further use inadvisable, Thursday. NIST recommended ...

Picking the new hash algorithm won’t be done overnight. NIST’s Burr says he doesn’t expect to have a SHA-3 winner until 2012, and it may take a decade more for the algorithm to be widely ...

PHP got a whole lot more secure this week with the release of the 7.2 branch, a version that improves and modernizes the programming language's support for cryptography and password hashing ...