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        RFC 3174

        Title:      US Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA1)
        Author(s):  D. Eastlake, 3rd, P. Jones
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       September 2001
        Mailbox:    Donald.Eastlake@motorola.com,
                    paulej@packetizer.com 
        Pages:      22
        Characters: 35525
        Updates/Obsoletes/See Also:  None

        I-D Tag:    draft-eastlake-sha1-02.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3174.txt


The purpose of this document is to make the SHA-1 (Secure Hash
Algorithm 1) hash algorithm conveniently available to the Internet
community.  The United States of America has adopted the SHA-1 hash
algorithm described herein as a Federal Information Processing
Standard.  Most of the text herein was taken by the authors from FIPS
180-1.  Only the C code implementation is "original".

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