NIST SHA-3 Submission – Sgàil
For those who haven’t been following the hype, NIST advertised back in 2007 for submission candidates for a new cryptographic hash algorithm, much in the same vein that the Advanced Encryption Standard process was conducted (the website can be found here). The deadline for submissions is tomorrow, so I thought now would be a good time to upload a copy of my own submission, Sgàil.
A copy of the submission files can be found in the articles and papers section of this website – or even quicker the specification is here.
As with all submissions to the SHA-3 process, its totally royalty free and all that jazz – basically you can do what you like with it. If anyone ever fancies implementing it in real software, I would love to hear about it. Also, if anyone has comments or analysis on the actual algorithm, I may not want to hear them, but they are none-the-less very welcome 
UPDATED 22/01/09: The new version, 0.4, of Sgàil is available which corrects a serious error, check the Sgàil page for more details.
