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KT128 and KT256 are fast, secure cryptographic hash functions based on Keccak (SHA-3). They can be seen as the modern version of SHA-3, and evolution of SHAKE, with better performance. After the SHA-3 competition, the Keccak team proposed these variants in 2016, and the constructions underwent 8 years of public scrutiny before being standardized in October 2025 as RFC 9861. They uses a tree-hashing mode on top of TurboSHAKE, providing both high security and excellent performance, especially on large inputs. They support arbitrary-length output and optional customization strings. Hashing of very large inputs can be done using multiple threads, for high throughput. KT128 provides 128-bit security strength, equivalent to AES-128 and SHAKE128, which is sufficient for virtually all applications. KT256 provides 256-bit security strength, equivalent to SHA-512. For virtually all applications, KT128 is enough (equivalent to SHA-256 or BLAKE3). For small inputs, TurboSHAKE128 and TurboSHAKE256 (which KT128 and KT256 are based on) can be used instead as they have less overhead.