Computer Science

Algorithm sources

Please support our Computer Science advertiser: Learn about neural networks and artificial intelligence.

•

Join Date: Oct 2007

Posts: 34

Reputation: gallantmon1 is an unknown quantity at this point

Solved Threads: 0

gallantmon1 gallantmon1 is offline

Offline

Light Poster

Algorithm sources

Nov 9th, 2009

Does anyone know where I can have access to SHA-2 algorithms?

Preferably, in Java but C can also do.

Thanks

•

Join Date: Jun 2005

Posts: 2,052

Reputation: Rashakil Fol is just really nice

Solved Threads: 139

Rashakil Fol Rashakil Fol is offline

Offline

Super Senior Demiposter

Nov 9th, 2009

openssl is open source.

Uh... what do you want this for?

Last edited by Rashakil Fol; Nov 9th, 2009 at 1:21 pm.

All my posts may be redistributed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

•

Join Date: Oct 2007

Posts: 34

Reputation: gallantmon1 is an unknown quantity at this point

Solved Threads: 0

gallantmon1 gallantmon1 is offline

Offline

Light Poster

Nov 9th, 2009

Oh, sorry about that, I'm going to use it for encryption

I need to run some tests and wanting to see if there are available algorithms I can use, since I don't exactly know how to make an SHA-2 algorithm on my own

•

Join Date: Jun 2005

Posts: 2,052

Reputation: Rashakil Fol is just really nice

Solved Threads: 139

Rashakil Fol Rashakil Fol is offline

Offline

Super Senior Demiposter

Nov 9th, 2009

If you're writing production software, you should use openssl or gpg or whatever -- you shouldn't be calling cryptography routines yourself, and especially you shouldn't be writing them, unless you know what you're doing. And if you're wondering if you know what you're doing or not, then you don't. Of course, how does one learn then? Well, if you want to play around, though, be my guest

. There are implementations of the various SHA-2 algorithms online -- just search for "SHA-256 implementation" on a search engine, for example.