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"truncated sha512" would be a much better way to talk about it.
by foobiekr 7y ago
"truncated sha512" would be a much better way to talk about it.
- wiml 7y agoIt isn't exactly truncated SHA-512 — that is, you can't compute a SHA-512/256 hash by computing a SHA-512 hash and then truncating it. Although the algorithm is the same as doing that, the initial state of the hash context is different. (The same is true for SHA-224, which could be called SHA-256/224; it's a truncated SHA-256, but with a different internal state.)
- foobiekr 7y agoTrue, that’s a good point.