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Changes in Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 180-4, Secure Hash Standard

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Author(s)

Quynh H. Dang

Abstract

This paper describes the changes between FIPS 180-3 and FIPS 180-4. FIPS 180-4 specifies two new secure cryptographic hash algorithms: SHA-512/224 and SHA-512/256; it also includes a method for determining initial value(s) for any future SHA-512-based hash algorithm(s). FIPS 180-4 also removes a requirement for the execution of the message length encoding operation.
Citation
Cryptologia
Volume
37
Issue
1
Pub Type
Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2012.687431

Keywords

FIPS 180, hash algorithm, SHA-512, SHA-512/224, SHA-512/256, hash function
Cybersecurity and privacy

Citation

Dang, Q. (2013), Changes in Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 180-4, Secure Hash Standard, Cryptologia, [online], https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2012.687431 (Accessed October 9, 2025)

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Created January 11, 2013, Updated November 10, 2018
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