SHA-384 Hash Generator

What is SHA-384?

SHA-384 is a member of the SHA-2 family: essentially SHA-512 computed with different initial values and then truncated to 384 bits. The digest is 96 hexadecimal characters long. The extra length gives a larger security margin than SHA-256, and the truncation makes length-extension attacks impractical.

Example: the SHA-384 hash of hello is 59e1748777448c69de6b800d7a33bbfb9ff1b463e44354c3553bcdb9c666fa90125a3c79f90397bdf5f6a13de828684f — the tool above is pre-filled so you can see it live.

Is SHA-384 secure?

Yes. SHA-384 shares SHA-512's strong design and offers 192 bits of collision resistance — comfortably beyond any known attack. It is approved for government and regulated use and commonly appears alongside the P-384 elliptic curve in TLS certificates and cipher suites.

Common uses of SHA-384

• High-assurance TLS: ECDSA P-384 certificates are typically signed with SHA-384.
• Compliance: some standards (such as the CNSA suite) require SHA-384 for protecting classified data.
• Subresource Integrity: browsers accept sha384 hashes in script and stylesheet integrity attributes.

Other hash generators

Need a different digest? Pick another algorithm — each has its own page:

Or go back to the Hash Generator homepage to see all five hashes at once.

Why does my hash not match another tool?

Hashes are computed over bytes, not characters, so two inputs that look identical can still produce different digests. The three usual causes:

• A trailing newline. The shell command echo "secret" hashes "secret" plus a line break, while printf %s "secret" (or echo -n) hashes just the word. Text copied out of a terminal often carries that invisible newline.
• Character encoding. This tool encodes your input as UTF-8 before hashing. "café" is 5 bytes in UTF-8 but 4 bytes in Latin-1, so a tool using a different encoding returns a different digest for the same word. Make sure both sides use UTF-8.
• Stray whitespace. Leading or trailing spaces from copy-paste change the input — and therefore the hash. This tool hashes exactly what sits in the box, byte for byte.

Digest sizes at a glance

Every algorithm has a fixed output length, so a quick character count tells you whether a pasted hash is complete or truncated:

Letter case is only display formatting: toggling Uppercase hex does not change the underlying value, and two digests that differ only by case are the same hash.

Frequently asked questions