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Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA): A Comprehensive Analysis-Foundations, Evolution, Applications, and Post-Quantum Resilience

08 Sep 2025

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This podcast offers a comprehensive overview of the **Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA)** family, detailing its **evolution from SHA-0 to SHA-3** and its critical role in digital security. It explains that SHA functions act as **one-way digital fingerprints**, ensuring **data integrity, authenticity, and non-repudiation** across diverse applications like digital signatures, password storage, and blockchain technology. It differentiates between the **Merkle-Damgård construction** of SHA-1 and SHA-2, highlighting SHA-1's deprecation due to collision vulnerabilities and SHA-2's current security, while introducing SHA-3's **sponge construction** as a more resilient and versatile design. Furthermore, we explore **quantum threats** from algorithms like Grover's, discussing how SHA functions maintain relative resilience and emphasizing the ongoing development of **post-quantum cryptography (PQC)** and hash-based signatures to secure future digital landscapes. Ultimately, they underscore SHA's indispensable and continuously adapting nature in safeguarding information in an evolving threat environment.

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Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA): A Comprehensive Analysis-Foundations, Evolution, Applications, and Post-Quantum Resilience

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13:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

10:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

12:00H | 20 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

2ª PARTE | 06 ENE 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

3ª PARTE | 22 ENE 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

3ª PARTE | 04 MAR 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

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