SHA2 is a family of cryptographic hash algorithms, including SHA256 and SHA512. These are the successor to the SHA1 algorithm.
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What is SHA-3 and why did we change it?
On the 2nd of October NIST decided that SHA-3 is the new standard hashing algorithm, does this mean we need to stop using SHA-2 as it is not secure?
What is this SHA-3 anyway?
