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by tptacek 819 days ago
This is a good time to re-read JP Aumasson's "Too Much Crypto" post:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1492.pdf

The comparison is probably broken in a variety of ways, but the Keccak team proposed KangarooTwelve, a 12- (1/2 as many) round Keccak variant, after a practical attack on 6-round Keccak was published.

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I noticed blake3 uses 7 doublerounds, i.e. 14 chacha rounds. Is it intended due to increased communication or another bug?