January 22, 2002
Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography
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An Example Hash: SHA-1
nSHA-1 was designed by the US Government as part of the Digital Signature Standard
nSHA-1 is the most-commonly used hash function today
nIt’s the hash function in which we have the most faith right now
nSHA-1 takes any size input and produces a 160-bit output (the digest value)