This enables the use of faster symmetric key algorithms to exchange ... Figure 2 shows the basic concept of secure hash generation. 2. The flow diagram presents the basic concept of secure hash ...

On 2 October an algorithm called Keccak was named the winner of the Secure Hash Algorithm-3 (SHA-3) competition, run by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg ...

Then the National Security Agency published a similar hash function called the Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA), followed by SHA-1, which today is the most popular hash function. One-way hash functions ...

The SHA1 (Secure Hash Algorithm 1) cryptographic hash function is now officially dead and useless, after Google announced today the first ever successful collision attack. SHA1 is a cryptographic ...