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Skein is a cryptographic hash function and one of five finalists in the NIST hash function competition. Entered as a candidate to become the SHA-3 standard, the successor of SHA-1 and SHA-2, it ultimately lost to NIST hash candidate Keccak.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skein (hash function) | Certification | SHA-3 finalist | 1.00 | infobox |
| Skein (hash function) | Derived from | Threefish | 1.00 | infobox |
| Skein (hash function) | Designers | Bruce Schneier, Niels Ferguson, et al. | 1.00 | infobox |
| Skein (hash function) | Digest sizes | arbitrary | 1.00 | infobox |
| Skein (hash function) | Rounds | 72 (256 & 512 block size), 80 (1024 block size) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Skein (hash function) | Speed | 6.1 cpb on Core 2. | 1.00 | infobox |
| Skein (hash function) | Structure | Unique Block Iteration | 1.00 | infobox |
| randomized hashing | instance of | and the Skein paper defines optional features | 0.80 | text |
| parallelizable tree hashing | instance of | and the Skein paper defines optional features | 0.80 | text |
| a stream cipher | instance of | and the Skein paper defines optional features | 0.80 | text |
| personalization | instance of | and the Skein paper defines optional features | 0.80 | text |
| and a key derivation function | instance of | and the Skein paper defines optional features | 0.80 | text |
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