In response to the discovery of vulnerabilities in SHA-1, the National Institute of Standards and Technology intends to launch a public competition similar to the one that led to AES. A tentative agenda has been released on NIST's website.
The first step in this agenda is of course the Second Cryptographic Hash Workshop, to be held in conjunction with CRYPTO 2006.
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