<p>The National Institute of Standards and Technology has chosen the five finalists for the last round of its competition to find the next hash function standard. The SHA-3 finalists include Skein ...

Security researchers announced the first practical collision attack against the Secure Hash Algorithm-1 cryptographic function.

Bruce Schneier says he doesn’t think NIST needs a new hash function standard and that he’s hoping for no award in the SHA-3 competition. His Skein function is a finalist.

The data is passed to the SHA256 function. The function takes the data and calculates a random-looking number, but with special properties (discussed later). The first Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) was ...

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The SHA-256 hash function remains a cornerstone of modern cryptographic systems, underpinning applications ranging from blockchain mining to secure communications in IoT networks.

The expectation by NIST is that SHA-2 would be severely weakened by now due to improved cryptographic analysis and thus getting a new hashing function was a high priority.

SHA-1 is a cryptographic hashing function designed to produce a fingerprint of a document, making it easy to tell if a document has been modified after the fingerprint was calculated.