SHA(5)

✨ SHA(5) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the SHA page from the Lsh Manuals 💖 it's giving cryptography, it's giving 1999, it's giving "your fave is a hash function". sit down, grab a snack 🍓

🌸 NAME 🌸

SHA — Secure Hash Algorithm 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, SHA (which the cool kids write as [SHA] in the docs) is the Secure Hash Algorithm — a whole standard from NIST, aka the U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology. and babes, it's not just sitting there looking pretty: it's used in DSA(5) 🫶

the actual standard that spells out all the SHA deets is [SHS]. and if you wanna know what SHA is and how secure it actually is, that's [AC2] — go read it, no cap 📚✨

🎀 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> — icon behaviour, honestly 🙈💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• DSA(5)

and that's the whole vibe, bestie — this page comes to you from the LSH era, dated JANUARY 1999 🎀 periodt, go hash something (responsibly) 💜