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SHA Hash Function

The Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) is a family of cryptographic hash functions standardized by NIST starting in 1993. SHA functions produce fixed-length digests from arbitrary-length input data, serving as a fundamental building block for digital signatures, message authentication, and data integrity verification across security-critical applications.

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Sources

  1. National Institute of Standards and Technology (1993). Secure Hash Standard (SHS). Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 180. link
  2. Wang, X., Yin, Y. L., & Yu, H. (2005). Finding collisions in the full SHA-1. Proceedings of CRYPTO 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3621, 17–36. DOI: 10.1007/11535218_2
  3. Stevens, M., Bursztein, E., Karpman, P., Albertini, A., & Markov, Y. (2013). The first collision for full SHA-1. Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2017, 570–596. link

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