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Proposed Revision of FIPS 180
July 11, 1994
Federal Register Number: 94-16666

A revision of Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 180, Secure Hash Standard (SHS), is being proposed. This proposed revision corrects a technical flaw that made the standard less secure than had been thought.

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