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New SHA-3 Release 1.0.2

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A new patch release 1.0.2 of the SHA-3 library has been released, which fixes an important bug in the generation of message digests, where multiple calls to sha3-update with partially filled buffers could lead to input data being lost and therefore incorrect and colliding message digests being generated.

All users of SHA-3 should upgrade to the new release to avoid this issue. Uses of the library that only called sha3-update once for each message digest, as well as all uses of the high-level entry points were not affected by this issue, but should still upgrade as a precaution.

Thanks to Orivej Desh for reporting this issue.

The release is available from its PMSF page, and its GitHub home.

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