What are SHA and SHA-1 ?

Answer Posted / supriya

SHA is a secure hash algorithm developed by national
institute of standard technology
SHA-1 is a type of SHA
message digest size of SHA 1 Is 160 bits and
message size is < 2^64
it uses block cipher
sha is a digital signature algorithm

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