[48301] in Cypherpunks
Re: SHA-2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mutatis Mutantdis)
Sat Jan 27 19:30:44 1996
From: wlkngowl@unix.asb.com (Mutatis Mutantdis)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List), futplex@pseudonym.com
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 00:26:32 GMT
futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex) writes:
>Any particular reason someone called this SHA-2 ? It sounds a whole lot like
>the revision of the original SHA, called SHA-1, that came out quite a while
>ago. (FIPS 180-1) This is rather old hat unless they're making a _second_
>revision to the standard, in which case I expect there would have been much
>more noise made about it.
I think that has a bit to do with a question I had, whether it was SHA
and SHA-1 (aka "Revised SHA") but I've found the revised version being
referred to as "SHA-2" in a couple of sources and went with that....
unless there *is* a third revision...?!?
Problem is the memo I saw still referred to the revised algorithm as
SHA. (Anyone have a URL for FIPS 180-1 Please...?)
Rob.
