Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) [SHA-1, SHA-2, SHA-3]

A government standard hash function developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and specified in an official government publication. SHA-1 creates a 160-bit hash value output. Members of the SHA-2 family create a range of hash value outputs: 224, 256, 384 or 512. SHA-3 was still in development at the time of this writing, but the Keccak algorithm has been selected for that emerging standard.