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The Third SHA-3 Candidate Conference

March 22-23, 2012

Washington D.C.

The Third SHA-3 Candidate Conference will be held at the Washington Marriott Hotel in Washington, DC on March 22-23, 2012, following SHARCS 2012 and FSE 2012. The purpose of the conference is to discuss the SHA-3 finalist algorithms, and to solicit public feedback before NIST selects a winning algorithm for standardization later in 2012.