SHA-2 will soon retire


Music by Billy Joel, lyrics by Christiane Peters, Michael Naehrig and Peter Schwabe with kind help by Dan Bernstein and Tanja Lange.
See also the video on youtube.com.


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Cheetah and Dynamic-SHA, CHI, Lux, Luffa, Lesamnta,
Em                         C
Blake, Lane, Hamsi, Skein, NKS2D.

G                     D
All repeat Shavite-3 Mikhail Maslennikov,
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is the man behind MCSSHA-3.

G   D   Em   C

G                     D
ECHO, ECOH, Edon-R, Spectral Hash and Aurora,
Em               C
MD6 and ARIRANG do not rhyme with anythang.

G                       D
SWIFFTX, VORTEX, FSB, Sgàil, Fugue and TIB-3,
Em                         C
No one knows their fate, Shabal plays at number 8.


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SHA-2 will soon retire,
        Am                       C
because NIST is learning and SHA-1 is burning.
G                 D
SHA-2 will soon retire,
      Am                       C
no we didn't light it but we tried to fight it.


G                           D
JH and Blue Midnight Wish, Grøstl is a breakfast dish,
Em                           C
CRUNCH and SIMD, SANDstorm... we will see.

G                             D
Twister, Blender and Keccak, Sarmal, do they rock?
Em                     C
CubeHash really sucks. Dan, do you agree?

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Martin, Knudsen, Misarsky, Indesteege, Jason Lee,
Em                 C
Hirotaka Yoshida, Küçük, Lim, Vidyasagar,
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Finiasz, Fay, the Keccak Team, Jutla and Jacques Patarin,
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Bernstein, Biham, trouble with the benchmarks.


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SHA-2 will soon retire,
        Am                       C
because NIST is learning and SHA-1 is burning.
G                 D
SHA-2 will soon retire,
      Am                       C
no we didn't light it but we tried to fight it.


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Abacus, Waterfall, StreamHash, Tangle, WaMM and Boole,
Em             D
Ponic, Shamata, DCH and Maraca,
C                   Am
MeshHash, HASH 2X, didn't really meet the specs.
Em                     D                        C
ZK-Crypt, Khichidi-1, they're all already gone.

G                     D
NaSHA, ESSENCE, Kara, Neil Sholer, Sean O'Neil,
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Gligoroski, Varici, Schroeppel and Watanabe,
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Khovratovich, Hattersley, Leurent, Koç and Markovski,
Em                       C
Eurocrypt now you know, where the competition goes.


G                 D
SHA-2 will soon retire,
        Am                       C
because NIST is learning and SHA-1 is burning.
G                 D
SHA-2 will soon retire,
      Am                       C
no we didn't light it but we tried to fight it.


G       D
26a 52d 798f1c
Em     C
8a 9b d84823
G       D
84d422d 6892abc
Em     C
15 323 9259a6d

G                         D
Who will break this hash, we can say it's not just trash,
Em                   C
EnRUPT blown away, what else do I have to say?


G                 D
SHA-2 will soon retire
        Am                       C
because NIST is learning and SHA-1 is burning
G                 D
SHA-2 will soon retire
      Am                       C
no we didn't light it but we tried to fight it.