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## SHA-256
[SHA-256]([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2)) is widely used throughout the Bitcoin Cash protocol to identify blocks and transactions along with a variety of purposes in transaction scripts. The most notable uses of SHA-256 are:
[SHA-256](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2) is widely used throughout the Bitcoin Cash protocol to identify blocks and transactions along with a variety of purposes in transaction scripts. The most notable uses of SHA-256 are:
- Block Hashing (Double SHA-256)
- A SHA-256 hash is taken of the block header. The output hash is then hashed again with SHA-256. This resultant hash is referred to simply as the block hash and is used as a unique identifier for the block.
- This double hash removes the possibility of a [length extension attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_extension_attack) which a single SHA-256 is vulnerable to. While this is generally not a problem for Bitcoin Cash since the pre-image (the actual data of the block) is available, it trades a minor amount of inefficiency for confidence that this property of SHA-256 cannot be exploited.
- Double SHA-256 has it's own script operation for ease-of-use, [OP_HASH256](/protocol/blockchain/script/opcodes/op-hash256)
- Double SHA-256 has it's own operation for ease-of-use, [OP_HASH256](/protocol/blockchain/script/opcodes/op-hash256)
- Transaction Hashing (Double SHA-256)
- Transactions are also hashed using a double application of SHA-256. This is referred to as the transaction hash and is used to uniquely identify the transaction. (NOTE: Historical transaction hashes are not universally unique, there are two sets of two identical coinbase transactions and thus repeated hashes. Since [BIP-34](/protocol/forks/bip-0034), the block height is now required to be in the coinbase transaction, so this should not be possible in the future.)
- The two cases where this occurred are the following transactions which each appear in two blocks:
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## RIPEMD-160
[RIPEMD-160](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIPEMD) is used in Bitcoin Cash scripts to create short, quasi-anonymous representations of payees for transactions. Since its brevity is also a potential liability for the anonymity it provides (since shorter hashes generally provide less collision-resistance), it is used in conjunction with SHA-256 when generating an address from a public key. That is, <code>(public key) -> SHA-256 -> RIPEMD-160 -> (address)</code>. This SHA-256 then RIPEMD-160 process has its own script operation for ease-of-use, [OP_HASH160](/protocol/blockchain/script/op-codes/op-hash160).
[RIPEMD-160](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIPEMD) is used in Bitcoin Cash scripts to create short, quasi-anonymous representations of payees for transactions. Since its brevity is also a potential liability for the anonymity it provides (since shorter hashes generally provide less collision-resistance), it is used in conjunction with SHA-256 when generating an address from a public key. That is, <code>(public key) -> SHA-256 -> RIPEMD-160 -> (address)</code>. This SHA-256 then RIPEMD-160 process has its own operation for ease-of-use, [OP_HASH160](/protocol/blockchain/script/op-codes/op-hash160).
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