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SHA-1

A message digest or hash algorithm developed by the U.S. Government. The algorithm takes as input a message of arbitrary length and produces a 160-bit hash of the input. SHA-1 is the one-way hash function of choice for use with both the RSA* and DSA signature algorithms.

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