Is NIST's Cryptography Backdoored?

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Missing: Have the minor padding changes by NIST (=NSA) to Keccak for SHA-3 really not impacted security? https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/15727/what-are-th...

> Why has no memory-hard password-hashing function been standardized?

argon2?

Argon2 has been standardized by the IETF, but has not been endorsed by NIST/FIPS. So USGov developers have to run a password through PBKDF2 before they can use Argon2.

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