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RustCrypto: Digest Algorithm Traits
Traits which describe functionality of cryptographic hash functions, a.k.a. digest algorithms.
See RustCrypto/hashes for implementations which use this trait.
Minimum Supported Rust Version
Rust 1.41 or higher.
Minimum supported Rust version can be changed in the future, but it will be done with a minor version bump.
SemVer Policy
- All on-by-default features of this library are covered by SemVer
- MSRV is considered exempt from SemVer as noted above
Usage
Let us demonstrate how to use crates in this repository using BLAKE2b as an example.
First add blake2
crate to your Cargo.toml
:
[dependencies]
blake2 = "0.8"
blake2
and other crates re-export digest
crate and Digest
trait for
convenience, so you don't have to add digest
crate as an explicit dependency.
Now you can write the following code:
use blake2::{Blake2b, Digest};
let mut hasher = Blake2b::new();
let data = b"Hello world!";
hasher.input(data);
// `input` can be called repeatedly and is generic over `AsRef<[u8]>`
hasher.input("String data");
// Note that calling `finalize()` consumes hasher
let hash = hasher.finalize();
println!("Result: {:x}", hash);
In this example hash
has type GenericArray<u8, U64>
, which is a generic
alternative to [u8; 64]
.
Alternatively you can use chained approach, which is equivalent to the previous example:
let hash = Blake2b::new()
.chain(b"Hello world!")
.chain("String data")
.finalize();
println!("Result: {:x}", hash);
If the whole message is available you also can use convinience digest
method:
let hash = Blake2b::digest(b"my message");
println!("Result: {:x}", hash);
Hashing Read
-able objects
If you want to hash data from Read
trait (e.g. from file) you can rely on
implementation of Write
trait (requires enabled-by-default std
feature):
use blake2::{Blake2b, Digest};
use std::{fs, io};
let mut file = fs::File::open(&path)?;
let mut hasher = Blake2b::new();
let n = io::copy(&mut file, &mut hasher)?;
let hash = hasher.finalize();
println!("Path: {}", path);
println!("Bytes processed: {}", n);
println!("Hash value: {:x}", hash);
Generic code
You can write generic code over Digest
(or other traits from digest
crate)
trait which will work over different hash functions:
use digest::Digest;
// Toy example, do not use it in practice!
// Instead use crates from: https://github.com/RustCrypto/password-hashing
fn hash_password<D: Digest>(password: &str, salt: &str, output: &mut [u8]) {
let mut hasher = D::new();
hasher.input(password.as_bytes());
hasher.input(b"$");
hasher.input(salt.as_bytes());
output.copy_from_slice(hasher.finalize().as_slice())
}
use blake2::Blake2b;
use sha2::Sha256;
hash_password::<Blake2b>("my_password", "abcd", &mut buf);
hash_password::<Sha256>("my_password", "abcd", &mut buf);
If you want to use hash functions with trait objects, use digest::DynDigest
trait.
License
Licensed under either of:
at your option.
Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.