Secure Hash Algorithms

The Secure Hash Algorithms are a family of cryptographic hash functions published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS), including:

• SHA-0 : A retronym applied to the original version of the 160-bit hash function published in 1993 under the name "SHA". It was withdrawn shortly after publication due to an undisclosed "significant flaw" and replaced by the slightly revised version SHA-1.
• SHA-1 : A 160-bit hash function which resembles the earlier MD5 algorithm. This was designed by the National Security Agency (NSA) to be part of the Digital Signature Algorithm. Cryptographic weaknesses were discovered in SHA-1, and the standard was no longer approved for most cryptographic uses after 2010.
• SHA-2 : A family of two similar hash functions, with different block sizes, known as SHA-256 and SHA-512. They differ in the word size; SHA-256 uses 32-bit words where SHA-512 uses 64-bit words. There are also truncated versions of each standard, known as SHA-224, SHA-384, SHA-512/224 and SHA-512/256. These were also designed by the NSA.
• SHA-3 : A hash function formerly called Keccak , chosen in 2012 after a public competition among non-NSA designers. It supports the same hash lengths as SHA-2, and its internal structure differs significantly from the rest of the SHA family.

The corresponding standards are FIPS PUB 180 (original SHA), FIPS PUB 180-1 (SHA-1), FIPS PUB 180-2 (SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512). NIST has updated Draft FIPS Publication 202, SHA-3 Standard separate from the Secure Hash Standard (SHS).

Comparison of SHA functions

In the table below, internal state means the "internal hash sum" after each compression of a data block.

Further information: Merkle–Damgård construction

Comparison of SHA functions

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Algorithm and variant		Output size (bits)	Internal state size (bits)	Block size (bits)	Rounds	Operations	Security (bits)	Performance on Skylake (median cpb) [1]		First published
								Long messages	8 bytes
MD5 (as reference)		128	128 (4 × 32)	512	4 (16 operations in each round)	And, Xor, Or, Rot, Add (mod 232)	≤ 18 (collisions found) [2]	4.99	55.00	1992
SHA-0		160	160 (5 × 32)	512	80	And, Xor, Or, Rot, Add (mod 232)	< 34 (collisions found)	≈ SHA-1	≈ SHA-1	1993
SHA-1							< 63 (collisions found) [3]	3.47	52.00	1995
SHA-2	SHA-224 SHA-256	224 256	256 (8 × 32)	512	64	And, Xor, Or, Rot, Shr, Add (mod 232)	112 128	7.62 7.63	84.50 85.25	2004 2001
	SHA-384	384	512 (8 × 64)	1024	80	And, Xor, Or, Rot, Shr, Add (mod 264)	192	5.12	135.75	2001
	SHA-512	512					256	5.06	135.50	2001
	SHA-512/224 SHA-512/256	224 256					112 128	≈ SHA-384	≈ SHA-384	2012
SHA-3	SHA3-224 SHA3-256 SHA3-384 SHA3-512	224 256 384 512	1600 (5 × 5 × 64)	1152 1088 832 576	24 [4]	And, Xor, Rot, Not	112 128 192 256	8.12 8.59 11.06 15.88	154.25 155.50 164.00 164.00	2015
	SHAKE128 SHAKE256	d (arbitrary) d (arbitrary)		1344 1088			min(d/2, 128) min(d/2, 256)	7.08 8.59	155.25 155.50

Validation

Main article: Cryptographic Module Validation Program

All SHA-family algorithms, as FIPS-approved security functions, are subject to official validation by the CMVP (Cryptographic Module Validation Program), a joint program run by the American National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Canadian Communications Security Establishment (CSE).

References

1. "Measurements table". bench.cr.yp.to.
2. Tao, Xie; Liu, Fanbao; Feng, Dengguo (2013). Fast Collision Attack on MD5 (PDF). Cryptology ePrint Archive (Technical report). IACR.
3. Stevens, Marc; Bursztein, Elie; Karpman, Pierre; Albertini, Ange; Markov, Yarik. The first collision for full SHA-1 (PDF) (Technical report). Google Research.
   • Marc Stevens; Elie Bursztein; Pierre Karpman; Ange Albertini; Yarik Markov; Alex Petit Bianco; Clement Baisse (February 23, 2017). "Announcing the first SHA1 collision". Google Security Blog.
4. "The Keccak sponge function family" . Retrieved 2016-01-27.