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SHA-2(512) Overview

SHA-2(512) (Secure Hash Algorithm 2 (512)) was proposed by the U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) for certain U.S. federal government applications. The algorithm takes a message of arbitrary length and produces a 512-bit message digest.

The SHA-2(512) algorithm was designed to produce outputs that provide security comparable to that projected for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES ).

The SHA-2(512) algorithm is designed to be quite fast on 64-bit machines.

The SHA-2(512) algorithm is specified in DFIPS 180-2.

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