diff --git a/cspell.json b/cspell.json
index 1f43b220602..512d9d29a07 100644
--- a/cspell.json
+++ b/cspell.json
@@ -255,6 +255,7 @@
         "repr",
         "reqwest",
         "rfind",
+        "ripemd",
         "RMVD",
         "rngs",
         "rustc",
diff --git a/docs/docs/noir/standard_library/cryptographic_primitives/hashes.mdx b/docs/docs/noir/standard_library/cryptographic_primitives/hashes.mdx
index f1f15a6c9b0..e02a37b807b 100644
--- a/docs/docs/noir/standard_library/cryptographic_primitives/hashes.mdx
+++ b/docs/docs/noir/standard_library/cryptographic_primitives/hashes.mdx
@@ -9,10 +9,28 @@ sidebar_position: 0
 
 import BlackBoxInfo from '@site/src/components/Notes/_blackbox';
 
+Many of the common hash methods have been moved outside of the Noir standard library and exist as independent libraries. 
+You can find the complete list of libraries in the [Hashes section](https://github.com/noir-lang/awesome-noir?tab=readme-ov-file#hashes) 
+of the awesome-noir repo, including:
+
+- keccak256
+- MiMC
+- Poseidon
+- RIPEMD160
+- sha256
+- sha512
+
+
 ## sha256 compression
 
 Performs a sha256 compression on an input and initial state, returning the resulting state.
 
+:::warning
+
+This is a different function than sha256. See [this library](https://github.com/noir-lang/sha256) for sha256 hashing.
+
+::: 
+
 #include_code sha256_compression noir_stdlib/src/hash/mod.nr rust
 
 <BlackBoxInfo to="../black_box_fns"/>
diff --git a/docs/versioned_docs/version-v1.0.0-beta.6/noir/standard_library/cryptographic_primitives/hashes.mdx b/docs/versioned_docs/version-v1.0.0-beta.6/noir/standard_library/cryptographic_primitives/hashes.mdx
index 5c14b480c01..4f81704d713 100644
--- a/docs/versioned_docs/version-v1.0.0-beta.6/noir/standard_library/cryptographic_primitives/hashes.mdx
+++ b/docs/versioned_docs/version-v1.0.0-beta.6/noir/standard_library/cryptographic_primitives/hashes.mdx
@@ -9,10 +9,28 @@ sidebar_position: 0
 
 import BlackBoxInfo from '@site/src/components/Notes/_blackbox';
 
+Many of the common hash methods have been moved outside of the Noir standard library and exist as independent libraries. 
+You can find the complete list of libraries in the [Hashes section](https://github.com/noir-lang/awesome-noir?tab=readme-ov-file#hashes) 
+of the awesome-noir repo, including:
+
+- keccak256
+- MiMC
+- Poseidon
+- RIPEMD160
+- sha256
+- sha512
+
+
 ## sha256 compression
 
 Performs a sha256 compression on an input and initial state, returning the resulting state.
 
+:::warning
+
+This is a different function than sha256. See [this library](https://github.com/noir-lang/sha256) for sha256 hashing.
+
+::: 
+
 ```rust title="sha256_compression" showLineNumbers 
 pub fn sha256_compression(input: [u32; 16], state: [u32; 8]) -> [u32; 8] {}
 ```
diff --git a/docs/versioned_docs/version-v1.0.0-beta.7/noir/standard_library/cryptographic_primitives/hashes.mdx b/docs/versioned_docs/version-v1.0.0-beta.7/noir/standard_library/cryptographic_primitives/hashes.mdx
index 7d177d0f370..0dc87e16d69 100644
--- a/docs/versioned_docs/version-v1.0.0-beta.7/noir/standard_library/cryptographic_primitives/hashes.mdx
+++ b/docs/versioned_docs/version-v1.0.0-beta.7/noir/standard_library/cryptographic_primitives/hashes.mdx
@@ -9,10 +9,28 @@ sidebar_position: 0
 
 import BlackBoxInfo from '@site/src/components/Notes/_blackbox';
 
+Many of the common hash methods have been moved outside of the Noir standard library and exist as independent libraries. 
+You can find the complete list of libraries in the [Hashes section](https://github.com/noir-lang/awesome-noir?tab=readme-ov-file#hashes) 
+of the awesome-noir repo, including:
+
+- keccak256
+- MiMC
+- Poseidon
+- RIPEMD160
+- sha256
+- sha512
+
+
 ## sha256 compression
 
 Performs a sha256 compression on an input and initial state, returning the resulting state.
 
+:::warning
+
+This is a different function than sha256. See [this library](https://github.com/noir-lang/sha256) for sha256 hashing.
+
+::: 
+
 ```rust title="sha256_compression" showLineNumbers 
 pub fn sha256_compression(input: [u32; 16], state: [u32; 8]) -> [u32; 8] {}
 ```
diff --git a/docs/versioned_docs/version-v1.0.0-beta.8/noir/standard_library/cryptographic_primitives/hashes.mdx b/docs/versioned_docs/version-v1.0.0-beta.8/noir/standard_library/cryptographic_primitives/hashes.mdx
index e0e5b30d21c..a5d38158af6 100644
--- a/docs/versioned_docs/version-v1.0.0-beta.8/noir/standard_library/cryptographic_primitives/hashes.mdx
+++ b/docs/versioned_docs/version-v1.0.0-beta.8/noir/standard_library/cryptographic_primitives/hashes.mdx
@@ -9,10 +9,27 @@ sidebar_position: 0
 
 import BlackBoxInfo from '@site/src/components/Notes/_blackbox';
 
+Many of the common hash methods have been moved outside of the Noir standard library and exist as independent libraries. 
+You can find the complete list of libraries in the [Hashes section](https://github.com/noir-lang/awesome-noir?tab=readme-ov-file#hashes) 
+of the awesome-noir repo, including:
+
+- keccak256
+- MiMC
+- Poseidon
+- RIPEMD160
+- sha256
+- sha512
+
 ## sha256 compression
 
 Performs a sha256 compression on an input and initial state, returning the resulting state.
 
+:::warning
+
+This is a different function than sha256. See [this library](https://github.com/noir-lang/sha256) for sha256 hashing.
+
+::: 
+
 ```rust title="sha256_compression" showLineNumbers 
 pub fn sha256_compression(input: [u32; 16], state: [u32; 8]) -> [u32; 8] {}
 ```