Shabal reviewed by students of Ronald L. Rivest

Professor Rivest was given a homework assignment to review some of the submissions to the NIST SHA-3 Hash Function Competition with respect to the arguments made by the submitters about the security of their proposals. There was 11 teams and each of them has 4 submissions to review and compare. Shabal was in the group 0 (Cheetah – Shabal – SHAMATA – Blender). The students recommend Shabal:

“SHABAL’s proposal is well­written (if long) and offers strong formal mathematical proofs for its securities.  Each form of resistance is given its own well­
ordered section and dealt with accordingly. ”

More information :

• Web page:  http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2009/sha3.html
• Group 0: Cheetah, SHABAL, SHAMATA and Blender — by Tom Brown, Nick Semenkovich, and Capen Low