Skein is a hash function designed by Niels Ferguson - Stefan Lucks - Bruce Schneier - Doug Whiting - Mihir Bellare - Tadayoshi Kohno - Jon Callas - Jesse Walker Submitted to [NIST] for their http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/sha-3/index.html%|%cryptographic hash algorithm competition%|%. The Skein website: http://www.skein-hash.info/%|%The Skein Hash Function Family%|% This is a placeholder for future discussions on Skein and its implementation in [Tcl]. <>Cryptography | Security