May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
326 pages
8h 32m
English
Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) is a hashing algorithm used in secured connections to provide the integrity and authenticity of a message to the receiver. SHA algorithm is the default hash algorithm set in SSL/TLS certificates. SHA-2 is a set of hash functions including SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, SHA-512/224 and SHA-512/256. The most common hash function used is SHA-256. Generally speaking, SHA-2 = SHA-256 and that is the minimum requirement.
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