# SHA-3 Hash

RootMe Challenge: Hash - SHA-3 Reverse the Keccak algorithm: You just got a SHA-3 hash:

0d 6e 57 75 05 f5 0c ac 98 85 e3 1a 70 da 8b b4
7c 59 dd 77 1e 7d 72 2e 13 94 9d 69 2e 60 7b 98
e3 6f b2 b9 21 76 1c a3 7f 94 fb c2 fa 28 40 bb
fe dd 82 5e 4f 65 b5 18 7d 0d 88 34 20 35 2b e3


You also have a stack dump at the end of the function that generated this hash. Find the text that produced this hash.

SHA-3 was not designed to replace SHA-2. It was the result of a contest to design a new hashing algorithm. The actual algorithm was named Keccak designed by Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen, Michaël Peeters, and Gilles Van Assche. The United States NIST (National Institute of Standards) published FIPS 202 standardizing the use of SHA-3.

Unlike SHA-1 and SHA-2 that use a Merkle-Damgard construction, SHA-3 uses a sponge construction, a type of algorithm which uses an internal state and takes input of any size producing a specific sized output. This makes it a good fit for cryptographic hashes which need to take variable length input and produce a fixed-length output.