A family of cryptographic hash functions, published by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology, that convert data of any length into a fixed-length digest used to verify integrity and to underpin digital signatures.
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Core PrincipleA family of cryptographic hash functions published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS). 2 Connections
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1. Wikipedia: SHA-1
Development
The original specification of the algorithm was published in 1993 under the title Secure Hash Standard, FIPS PUB 180, by U.S. government standards agency NIST.
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In cryptography, SHA-1 (Secure Hash Algorithm 1) is a hash function which takes an input and produces a 160-bit (20-byte) hash value known as a message digest, typically rendered as 40 hexadecimal digits.
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The Secure Hash Algorithms are a family of cryptographic hash functions published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)
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