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by HWR_14 1781 days ago
> Not sure I’ve ever read the NSA providing hardening guidance on anything before.

The NSA made SELinux, SHA-1, and SHA-256.

SHA-1 was specifically a slight change to SHA-0 that was unjustified at the time but over the next 3-5 years some attacks on SHA-0 that SHA-1 was not vulnerable to surfaced.