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	Title		: US Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA and HMAC-SHA)
	Author(s)	: D. Eastlake 3rd, T. Hansen
	Filename	: draft-eastlake-sha2-02.txt
	Pages		: 104
	Date		: 2006-1-30

The United States of America has adopted a suite of secure hash
   algorithms (SHAs), including four beyond SHA-1, as part of a Federal
   Information Processing Standard (FIPS), specifically SHA-224 [RFC
   3874], SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512.  The purpose of this document
   is to make open source code performing these hash functions
   conveniently available to the Internet community. The sample code
   supports input strings of arbitrary bit length. SHA-1's sample code
   from [RFC 3174] has also been updated to handle input strings of
   arbitrary length. Most of the text herein was adapted by the authors
   from FIPS 180-2.

   Code to perform SHA based HMACs is also included.

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