QuestionQ6

VerifiedInformation Security Concepts

An algorithm that forms part of the U.S. government's long-term project to establish publicly available cryptography standards, as authorized by the Computer Security Act of 1987, accepts a message 2^64 bits in length and produces a 160-bit message digest to complicate text searching.

Which of the following algorithms is a family of two similar hash functions that have different block sizes and use 32-bit words and 64-bit words?

Explanation

SHA-2 is the secure-hash family containing 32-bit-word functions such as SHA-224 and SHA-256, which use 512-bit message blocks, and 64-bit-word functions such as SHA-384 and SHA-512, which use 1024-bit blocks. NIST specifies these differing word and block sizes for the SHA-2 algorithms.

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