Security researchers announced the first practical collision attack against the Secure Hash Algorithm-1 cryptographic function.

Bruce Schneier says he doesn’t think NIST needs a new hash function standard and that he’s hoping for no award in the SHA-3 competition. His Skein function is a finalist.

<p>The National Institute of Standards and Technology has chosen the five finalists for the last round of its competition to find the next hash function standard. The SHA-3 finalists include Skein ...

The SHA-2 algorithm comes in four versions with different digest sizes usually called SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512. HMAC (Hash-based Message Authentication Code) is an algorithm for ...

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.

The SHA-256 hash function remains a cornerstone of modern cryptographic systems, underpinning applications ranging from blockchain mining to secure communications in IoT networks.

You may never have heard of SHA-1 or a hash collision, but it's one of the most impressive accomplishments of any security researcher.