The Keccak project started in 2008 for the development of the Keccak hash function,winner of SHA3 competition and used in Ethereum. The project is a multi disciplineeffort of cryptography, software and hardware development. All the developments areopen source, no patents and several incentives for 3rd party security analysis. Theproject is still active for providing improved implementations.
The Keccak hash function, and all its derivations, are cryptographic building blocks forthe good of the society. We believe that open cryptography is a key technology for thedigital society. The security of Keccak is key to the security of Ethereum and of manyother digital projects. We worked a lot in analyzing its security and encouraged third-party cryptanalysis, with very positive results.The Keccak hash function is one of the most analyzed cryptographic functions, which gives a very high confidence on its security and resistance against all kind of attacks.
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