» Almost twice as fast as SHA-512 and three times faster than SHA-256.

Skein is a new family of cryptographic hash functions. Its design combines speed, security, simplicity, and a great deal of flexibility in a modular package that is easy to analyze.

Skein is fast.

Hopefully it is also cryptographically secure.

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