SHA, Secure Hash Algorithm
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Description:

Type:Hashing algorithm.
Output:160 bit message digest.
MIME subtype:
Working groups:

Glossary:

DSA, Digital Signature Application.
(RFC 1320) Digital signature application, is where a large file must be "compressed" in a secure manner before being encrypted with a private (secret) key under a public-key cryptosystem.

Key.
(RFC 2841) The secret authentication key shared between the communicating parties SHOULD be a cryptographically strong random number, not a guessable string of any sort.

Message digest.
(RFC 1320) The message-digest algorithm takes as input a message of arbitrary length and produces as output a "fingerprint" or "message digest" of the input. It is conjectured that it is computationally infeasible to produce two messages having the same message digest, or to produce any message having a given prespecified target message digest.

RFCs:

[RFC 2841] IP Authentication using Keyed SHA1 with Interleaved Padding (IP-MAC).

[RFC 3174] US Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA1).

[RFC 3874] A 224-bit One-way Hash Function: SHA-224.

[RFC 4231] Identifiers and Test Vectors for HMAC-SHA-224, HMAC-SHA-256, HMAC-SHA-384, and HMAC-SHA-512.

Publications:

[FIPS 180-2] Secure Hash Standard.

Obsolete RFCs:

[RFC 1852] IP Authentication using Keyed SHA.

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