debian man page for sha

Query: sha

OS: debian

Section: 5

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SHA(5)								    Lsh Manuals 							    SHA(5)

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)
LSH
JANUARY 1999 SHA(5)
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