SHA-256 produces a fixed 256-bit output from an input of any size, and Bitcoin applies it twice to block data. Ethereum chose ...

Cryptography aficionados, say hello to a new hash algorithm backed by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). Dubbed Keccak (pronounced "catch-ack"), the secure hash algorithm, ...

Security experts are warning that a security flaw has been found in a popular and powerful data encryption algorithm, dubbed SHA-1, by a team of scientists from Shandong University in China. The three ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is conducting a competition to choose a new secure hashing algorithm, and the contest will end Friday, by which time the agency hopes to have ...

I saw that Microsoft is phasing out SHA-1 support as of Jan. 1, 2016, but nearly all of the production Web servers on the Internet still use it, including ours. In the wake of Heartbleed, is it time ...

Google has initiated a process to revoke trust from any certificates that rely on the outdated SHA-1crytpographic hash algorithm. Google announced Friday it will begin the process of phasing out the ...