diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 13c7408..31d82b3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ julia> bytes2hex(sha256("test"))
 "9f86d081884c7d659a2feaa0c55ad015a3bf4f1b2b0b822cd15d6c15b0f00a08"
 ```
 
-Each exported function (at the time of this writing, SHA-1, SHA-2 224, 256, 384 and 512, and SHA-3 224, 256, 384 and 512 functions are implemented) takes in either an `Array{UInt8}`, a `ByteString` or an `IO` object.  This makes it trivial to checksum a file:
+Each exported function (at the time of this writing, SHA-1, SHA-2 224, 256, 384 and 512, and SHA-3 224, 256, 384 and 512 functions are implemented) takes in either an `Vector{UInt8}`, a `ByteString` or an `IO` object.  This makes it trivial to checksum a file:
 
 ```julia
 shell> cat /tmp/test.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ julia> using SHA
 julia> open("/tmp/test.txt") do f
            sha2_256(f)
        end
-32-element Array{UInt8,1}:
+32-element Vector{UInt8}:
  0x9f
  0x86
  0xd0
@@ -52,6 +52,6 @@ Note the lack of a newline at the end of `/tmp/text.txt`.  Julia automatically i
 
 Due to the colloquial usage of `sha256` to refer to `sha2_256`, convenience functions are provided, mapping `shaxxx()` function calls to `sha2_xxx()`.  For SHA-3, no such colloquialisms exist and the user must use the full `sha3_xxx()` names.
 
-`shaxxx()` takes `AbstractString` and array-like objects (`NTuple` and `Array`) with elements of type `UInt8`.
+`shaxxx()` takes `AbstractString` and array-like objects (`NTuple` and `Vector`) with elements of type `UInt8`.
 
 Note that, at the time of this writing, the SHA3 code is not optimized, and as such is roughly an order of magnitude slower than SHA2.  Pull requests are welcome.
diff --git a/docs/src/index.md b/docs/src/index.md
index 8636212..e042a9a 100644
--- a/docs/src/index.md
+++ b/docs/src/index.md
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ julia> using SHA
 julia> open("/tmp/test.txt") do f
            sha2_256(f)
        end
-32-element Array{UInt8,1}:
+32-element Vector{UInt8}:
  0x9f
  0x86
  0xd0
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ julia> open("/tmp/test.txt") do f
 Due to the colloquial usage of `sha256` to refer to `sha2_256`, convenience functions are provided, mapping `shaxxx()` function calls to `sha2_xxx()`.
 For SHA-3, no such colloquialisms exist and the user must use the full `sha3_xxx()` names.
 
-`shaxxx()` takes `AbstractString` and array-like objects (`NTuple` and `Array`) with elements of type `UInt8`.
+`shaxxx()` takes `AbstractString` and array-like objects (`NTuple` and `Vector`) with elements of type `UInt8`.
 
 **SHA-1**
 ```@docs
diff --git a/src/common.jl b/src/common.jl
index 1cf8df1..7ed65ea 100644
--- a/src/common.jl
+++ b/src/common.jl
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ end
 """
     digest!(context)
 
-Finalize the SHA context and return the hash as array of bytes (Array{Uint8, 1}).
+Finalize the SHA context and return the hash as array of bytes (Vector{Uint8}).
 Updating the context after calling `digest!` on it will error.
 
 # Examples
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ SHA1 hash state
 julia> update!(ctx, b"data to to be hashed")
 
 julia> digest!(ctx)
-20-element Array{UInt8,1}:
+20-element Vector{UInt8}:
  0x83
  0xe4
  ⋮
diff --git a/src/shake.jl b/src/shake.jl
index 49bf50a..18b7ac4 100644
--- a/src/shake.jl
+++ b/src/shake.jl
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 abstract type SHAKE <: SHA3_CTX end 
 # note, that field property used has differend uses, depending on T<:SHAKE or T<:SHA3_CTX
 mutable struct SHAKE_128_CTX <: SHAKE
-    state::Array{UInt64,1}
+    state::Vector{UInt64}
     bytecount::UInt128
-    buffer::Array{UInt8,1}
-    bc::Array{UInt64,1}
+    buffer::Vector{UInt8}
+    bc::Vector{UInt64}
     used::Bool
 end
 mutable struct SHAKE_256_CTX <: SHAKE
-    state::Array{UInt64,1}
+    state::Vector{UInt64}
     bytecount::UInt128
-    buffer::Array{UInt8,1}
-    bc::Array{UInt64,1}
+    buffer::Vector{UInt8}
+    bc::Vector{UInt64}
     used::Bool
 end
 
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ Hash data using the `shake128` algorithm and return the first d resulting bytes.
 function shake128(data::AbstractBytes,d::UInt)
     ctx = SHAKE_128_CTX()
     update!(ctx, data)
-    M = Array{UInt8,1}(undef,d)     # prealloc
+    M = Vector{UInt8}(undef,d)     # prealloc
     p = pointer(M)
     digest!(ctx,d,p)
     return M
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ Hash data using the `shake258` algorithm and return the first d resulting bytes.
 function shake256(data::AbstractBytes,d::UInt)
     ctx = SHAKE_256_CTX()
     update!(ctx, data)
-    M = Array{UInt8,1}(undef,d)     # prealloc
+    M = Vector{UInt8}(undef,d)     # prealloc
     p = pointer(M)
     digest!(ctx,d,p)
     return M
diff --git a/src/types.jl b/src/types.jl
index c3c7748..6bc83d2 100644
--- a/src/types.jl
+++ b/src/types.jl
@@ -8,39 +8,39 @@ import Base: copy
 # We derive SHA1_CTX straight from SHA_CTX since it doesn't have a
 # family of types like SHA2 or SHA3 do
 mutable struct SHA1_CTX <: SHA_CTX
-    state::Array{UInt32,1}
+    state::Vector{UInt32}
     bytecount::UInt64
-    buffer::Array{UInt8,1}
-    W::Array{UInt32,1}
+    buffer::Vector{UInt8}
+    W::Vector{UInt32}
     used::Bool
 end
 
 # SHA2 224/256/384/512-bit Context Structures
 mutable struct SHA2_224_CTX <: SHA2_CTX
-    state::Array{UInt32,1}
+    state::Vector{UInt32}
     bytecount::UInt64
-    buffer::Array{UInt8,1}
+    buffer::Vector{UInt8}
     used::Bool
 end
 
 mutable struct SHA2_256_CTX <: SHA2_CTX
-    state::Array{UInt32,1}
+    state::Vector{UInt32}
     bytecount::UInt64
-    buffer::Array{UInt8,1}
+    buffer::Vector{UInt8}
     used::Bool
 end
 
 mutable struct SHA2_384_CTX <: SHA2_CTX
-    state::Array{UInt64,1}
+    state::Vector{UInt64}
     bytecount::UInt128
-    buffer::Array{UInt8,1}
+    buffer::Vector{UInt8}
     used::Bool
 end
 
 mutable struct SHA2_512_CTX <: SHA2_CTX
-    state::Array{UInt64,1}
+    state::Vector{UInt64}
     bytecount::UInt128
-    buffer::Array{UInt8,1}
+    buffer::Vector{UInt8}
     used::Bool
 end
 
@@ -68,31 +68,31 @@ const SHA512_CTX = SHA2_512_CTX
 
 # SHA3 224/256/384/512-bit context structures
 mutable struct SHA3_224_CTX <: SHA3_CTX
-    state::Array{UInt64,1}
+    state::Vector{UInt64}
     bytecount::UInt128
-    buffer::Array{UInt8,1}
-    bc::Array{UInt64,1}
+    buffer::Vector{UInt8}
+    bc::Vector{UInt64}
     used::Bool
 end
 mutable struct SHA3_256_CTX <: SHA3_CTX
-    state::Array{UInt64,1}
+    state::Vector{UInt64}
     bytecount::UInt128
-    buffer::Array{UInt8,1}
-    bc::Array{UInt64,1}
+    buffer::Vector{UInt8}
+    bc::Vector{UInt64}
     used::Bool
 end
 mutable struct SHA3_384_CTX <: SHA3_CTX
-    state::Array{UInt64,1}
+    state::Vector{UInt64}
     bytecount::UInt128
-    buffer::Array{UInt8,1}
-    bc::Array{UInt64,1}
+    buffer::Vector{UInt8}
+    bc::Vector{UInt64}
     used::Bool
 end
 mutable struct SHA3_512_CTX <: SHA3_CTX
-    state::Array{UInt64,1}
+    state::Vector{UInt64}
     bytecount::UInt128
-    buffer::Array{UInt8,1}
-    bc::Array{UInt64,1}
+    buffer::Vector{UInt8}
+    bc::Vector{UInt64}
     used::Bool
 end