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SHA-2

set of cryptographic hash functions designed by the NSA
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SHA-2

Summary

SHA-2 is a technical standard[1]. SHA-2 ranks in the top 3% of technical_standard entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,811 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • SHA-2's instance of is recorded as technical standard[3].
  • SHA-2's instance of is recorded as class[4].
  • SHA-2's follows is recorded as Q13414952[5].
  • SHA-2's followed by is recorded as SHA-3[6].
  • SHA-2's subclass of is recorded as cryptographic hash function[7].
  • SHA-2's subclass of is recorded as technical standard[8].
  • SHA-2's has part is recorded as Q110651361[9].
  • SHA-2's has part is recorded as SHA-512/224[10].
  • SHA-2's has part is recorded as SHA-512/256[11].
  • SHA-2's has part is recorded as SHA-224[12].
  • SHA-2's has part is recorded as SHA-384[13].
  • SHA-2's has part is recorded as SHA-512[14].
  • +2002-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of SHA-2[15].
  • SHA-2's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bm98p8[16].
  • SHA-2's described by source is recorded as RFC 4634: US Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA and HMAC-SHA)[17].
  • SHA-2's described by source is recorded as RFC 6234: US Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA and SHA-based HMAC and HKDF)[18].
  • SHA-2's File Format Wiki page ID is recorded as SHA-2[19].
  • SHA-2's Rosetta Code page ID is recorded as SHA-256[20].
  • SHA-2's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 190157925[21].
  • SHA-2's GitHub topic is recorded as sha-2[22].
  • SHA-2's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C190157925[23].

Why It Matters

SHA-2 ranks in the top 3% of technical_standard entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,811 views/month).[2] SHA-2 has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] SHA-2 is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Related Entities

cryptographic hash function SHA-224 SHA-3 SHA-384 SHA-512 SHA-512/224 SHA-512/256

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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