From 0638385dd25a1f5b186819b50c9999a4621117b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Javier Candeira <javier@candeira.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 09:23:18 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] add compatibility note on sha3 as alias for sha3-512

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 README.md | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7a685c6..1c1bca5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ code name
 # 0x14 formerly had the name "sha3", now deprecated
 ```
 
+## Compatibility note
+
+Implementations should make sure keep the string code `sha3` as an alias for `sha3-512` so that `encode('sha3', digest) == encode('sha3-512', digest)`.
 
 ### other tables