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The real reason is that SHA-3 is more different to SHA-2 in terms of fundamental design. The SHA-3 contest was launched shortly after SHA-1 was broken, and was partly just a hedge against SHA-2 being broken too.



Or NSA decided to backdoor SHA3




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