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Re:Statement on Bloomberg News story that NSA knew about the... by mpyne on Friday April 11, 2014 @09:07PM (#7576472)
The -1 in SHA-1 isn't because it was first. It was meant to be just "SHA", but NSA discovered a flaw in their own standardized hash algorithm soon after they published it and issued SHA-1 as a fixed version.
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