What is SHA-384?

SHA-384 is part of SHA-2 family which consists of six hash functions. SHA-384 has digest length of 384 bits. SHA-384 is basically a truncated version of SHA-512. SHA-384 is pretty much identical to SHA-512 except the fact that the initial hash values h0 through h7 are different and the output is constructed by omitting h6 and h7.