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== Team ==
=== Introduction ===
We are a team of four Junior Undergraduates at National Institute of Technology, Trichy, majoring in Computer Science and Engineering. We have a wide range of overlapping and unique interests and we mostly tinker with stuff till it breaks. 
Works 70% of the time, ''all the time''.

=== Members ===
* Sachin Ashok
* Soorya Narayan JM
* Suhith Rajesh
* Venkkatesh Sekar
* Professor: Dr. Leela Velusamy
* Mozilla Advisors: Franziskus Kiefer, Tim Taubert

== Project ==

=== Description ===

SHA-3 is a new cryptographic hash function. The goal of the project is to provide basic SHA-3 support for NSS.  On top of that, we plan to incorporate Sakura, a generic method proposed for tree based hashing and the two XOF functions (SHAKE-128 and 256) into the NSS module allowing the user to customize their hashes as well.
For further reading on SHA-3 and the Keccak family functions, check out http://keccak.noekeon.org/

=== Scope ===
At present, it is limited to implementing the SHA3 function as well as the variable length functions (SHAKE) 

=== Goals ===
* SHA3 implementation working on all platforms
* Functional tests
* Performance tests
* Good documentation
* Performance comparison with other implementations

=== Milestones ===

== Updates ==
=== Present Status ===
* Getting up to speed on existing SHA-3 literature :)
* Public Workpad : https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/mwos-hashing

=== 2016-10-10 ===
Kick off meeting: Oriented ourselves, discussed project outline, goals

=== <date> ===
* current work
* blocking points
* discussion points
* upcoming work

== References ==
[1] http://keccak.noekeon.org/