SHA-256

Designers: NSA
Published in: 2002
Standards: FIPS 180-2 (2002), NESSIE Portfolio (2003), ISO/IEC 10118-3:2004 (2004)
Cryptanalysis status: not yet broken (note: this may be out of date. please see papers section to see how up to date the entries are)

Title	Published in	Defined	Analyzed
FIPS 180-2	2002	SHA-1 SHA-256 SHA-384 SHA-512
NESSIE Portfolio	2003
ISO/IEC 10118-3:2004	2004	RIPEMD-128 RIPEMD-160 SHA-1 SHA-256 SHA-384 SHA-512 WHIRLPOOL
Analysis of simplified variants of SHA-256	2005		SHA-224 SHA-256
Collisions and other Non-Random Properties for Step-Reduced SHA-256	2008		SHA-256 SHA-384 SHA-512

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Algorithm type	Hash Function +
Designed by	NSA +
	Attribute values
Digest length	32 byte (256 bit) +
Block size	64 byte (512 bit) +
Max final block size	55 byte (440 bit) +
State size	32 byte (256 bit) +
Wikipedia entry	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-256 +