Claim

SHA-256 DEVELOPED_BY National Security Agency

Jack states that SHA-256 was made by the NSA; Jeff does not confirm the claim and says he would not disclose the answer if he knew it.

Episode
EP 83 — NSA Cryptologists
Origin
Uncertain
Confidence
65% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Jack Rhysider
Attributed source
—

Transcript evidence

“SHA-256 was made by the NSA.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 74313–74341

“I don’t know how you would do that with a hashing algorithm.”

Jeff Man · offsets 74768–74828

Read the official transcript

Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T06:50:01.984111+00:00

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