MD6 - The Failed SHA-3 Hash You Likely Never Heard Of

While MD6 never made it into NIST as SHA-3, it has recently made its way into a few hash cracking contests.

After a suggestion from Vavaldi from HashMob to add MD6 support to hashgen, I began working on a Pure Go MD6 port. Once that was complete, I added support for 5x common MD6 digest sizes to hashgen.

MD6 - Pure Go port
https://github.com/cyclone-github/md6

hashgen v1.3.1 - MD6 support
https://github.com/cyclone-github/hashgen

#md6 #nist #sha3 #hashcracking #hashgen #cmiyc #ctc #golang #port

Congrats to HashMob for winning Crack the Con 2026!

1. #HashMob Lite
2. #PizzaPlannet
3. #hash_meltdown

https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/11819

#crackthecon #ctc #cyphercon #hashcat #hashpwn

I love logical puzzles and have been a fan of Cracking the cryptic for 4 or 5 years now.
Their April sudoku hunt (patreon reward) is one from the Nala’s adventure series. They are some of the easiest and most enjoyable sudoku variant puzzles and feature lots of nice little visual touches.
Which also reminded me me to buy a coffee to Sven Neumann, the talented creator and maintainer of the SudokuPad.app

Link to an older Sandra & Nala sudoku in CTC
https://youtu.be/B3nU_Jdsci0

#sudoku #puzzle #ctc 🧠

Crack the Con 2026 launched this morning!

https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/11778

#ctc #crackthecon #CypherCon #hashcracking #contest #hashpwn #cybersecurity #infosec

Claiming The Crown 2026

De Avenue, Sunday, April 26 at 07:30 PM GMT+2

Claiming The Crown 2026
Bands: New Pokerface, Accelerators, Mikki Wood, Heartshake

https://calendar.askapunk.nl/event/claiming-the-crown-2026