SHA-3 is KECCAK

[Kagamin]

On Wednesday, 3 October 2012 at 12:39:15 UTC, Chris Cain wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 October 2012 at 11:35:42 UTC, Xinok wrote:
>> With the recent discussions regarding std.crypt/std.hash, I 
>> thought it would be worth announcing that the SHA-3 
>> competition has ended and the winner is KECCAK.
>>
>> http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/sha-3/winner_sha-3.html
>
> I would love to see D support SHA3 ASAP. I cringe at the fact 
> that many still use MD5.

MD5 is good enough for most cases. AFAIK, keccak uses weird bit 
fiddling. Wasn't it considered a bad practice since DES because a 
specialized hardware would give a considerable speedup, which 
will help in brute force attacks?