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.TH SHA 5 "JANUARY 1999" LSH "Lsh Manuals"
.SH NAME
SHA \- Secure Hash Algorithm
.SH DESCRIPTION

SHA
.RB ( [SHA] )
is the Secure Hash Algorithm, a standard from NIST, the
U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology, which is
used in 
.BR DSA (5).
The standard detailing SHA is
.BR [SHS] .

For a description of SHA and its security, see
.BR [AC2] .
.SH REFERENCES
.PP
.B [SHS]
National Institute of standards and Technology, 
NIST FIPS PUB 180,
.IR "Secure Hash Standard" ,
U.S. Department of Commerce,
May 1993.
.PP
.B [AC2]
Bruce Schneier,
.IR "Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms and Source Code in C" ,
second edition,
John Wiley and Sons,
1996.
.SH AUTHOR
This man-page was written by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR DSA (5)