origin of SHA 224 initial hash values

Jerrold Leichter jerrold.leichter at smarts.com
Sun Dec 7 11:35:29 EST 2003


| I don't know about 224 and there isn't any 128 but for SHA-1 (160) the
| initial values seem to be just an obvious pattern...
BTW, it hadn;t occured to me until now, but the 160-bit SHA-1 was presumably
designed to go with the 80-bit Clipper encryption!

							-- Jerry

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