NAME¶
SHA - Secure Hash Algorithm
DESCRIPTION¶
SHA (
[SHA]) is the Secure Hash Algorithm, a standard from NIST, the U.S.
National Institute for Standards and Technology, which is used in
DSA(5). The standard detailing SHA is
[SHS].
For a description of SHA and its security, see
[AC2].
REFERENCES¶
[SHS] National Institute of standards and Technology, NIST FIPS PUB 180,
Secure Hash Standard, U.S. Department of Commerce, May 1993.
[AC2] Bruce Schneier,
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms and
Source Code in C, second edition, John Wiley and Sons, 1996.
AUTHOR¶
This man-page was written by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
<jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>.
SEE ALSO¶
DSA(5)