Digest:: - Modules that calculate message digests

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The digest is (usually) some small/fixed size string. The actual size of the digest depend of the algorithm used. The message is simply a sequence of arbitrary bytes.</p> <p>An important property of the digest algorithms is that the digest is <i>likely</i> to change if the message change in some way. Another property is that digest functions are one-way functions, i.e. it should be <i>hard</i> to find a message that correspond to some given digest. Algorithms differ in how "likely" and how "hard", as well as how efficient they are to compute.</p> <p>All <code>Digest::</code> modules provide the same programming interface. A functional interface for simple use, as well as an object oriented interface that can handle messages of arbitrary length and which can read files directly.</p> <p>The digest can be delivered in three formats:</p> <dl> <dt id="binary"><a class="permalink" href="#binary">#</a><i>binary</i></dt> <dd> <p>This is the most compact form, but it is not well suited for printing or embedding in places that can't handle arbitrary data.</p> </dd> <dt id="hex"><a class="permalink" href="#hex">#</a><i>hex</i></dt> <dd> <p>A twice as long string of (lowercase) hexadecimal digits.</p> </dd> <dt id="base64"><a class="permalink" href="#base64">#</a><i>base64</i></dt> <dd> <p>A string of portable printable characters. This is the base64 encoded representation of the digest with any trailing padding removed. The string will be about 30% longer than the binary version. <a href="/5.8.1/MIME::Base64">MIME::Base64</a> tells you more about this encoding.</p> </dd> </dl> <p>The functional interface is simply importable functions with the same name as the algorithm. The functions take the message as argument and return the digest. Example:</p> <pre><code>use Digest::MD5 qw(md5); $digest = md5($message);</code></pre> <p>There are also versions of the functions with "_hex" or "_base64" appended to the name, which returns the digest in the indicated form.</p> <h1 id="OO-INTERFACE"><a class="permalink" href="#OO-INTERFACE">#</a><a id="OO"></a>OO INTERFACE</h1> <p>The following methods are available for all <code>Digest::</code> modules:</p> <dl> <dt id="$ctx-=-Digest->XXX($arg,...)"><a class="permalink" href="#$ctx-=-Digest-%3EXXX($arg,...)">#</a><a id="ctx-Digest-XXX-arg"></a>$ctx = Digest->XXX($arg,...)</dt> <dd> </dd> <dt id="$ctx-=-Digest->new(XXX-=>-$arg,...)"><a class="permalink" href="#$ctx-=-Digest-%3Enew(XXX-=%3E-$arg,...)">#</a><a id="ctx-Digest-new-XXX-arg"></a>$ctx = Digest->new(XXX => $arg,...)</dt> <dd> </dd> <dt id="$ctx-=-Digest::XXX->new($arg,...)"><a class="permalink" href="#$ctx-=-Digest::XXX-%3Enew($arg,...)">#</a><a id="ctx-Digest::XXX-new-arg"></a>$ctx = Digest::XXX->new($arg,...)</dt> <dd> <p>The constructor returns some object that encapsulate the state of the message-digest algorithm. You can add data to the object and finally ask for the digest. The "XXX" should of course be replaced by the proper name of the digest algorithm you want to use.</p> <p>The two first forms are simply syntactic sugar which automatically load the right module on first use. The second form allow you to use algorithm names which contains letters which are not legal perl identifiers, e.g. "SHA-1".</p> <p>If new() is called as an instance method (i.e. $ctx->new) it will just reset the state the object to the state of a newly created object. No new object is created in this case, and the return value is the reference to the object (i.e. $ctx).</p> </dd> <dt id="$other_ctx-=-$ctx->clone"><a class="permalink" href="#$other_ctx-=-$ctx-%3Eclone">#</a><a id="other_ctx-ctx-clone"></a>$other_ctx = $ctx->clone</dt> <dd> <p>The clone method creates a copy of the digest state object and returns a reference to the copy.</p> </dd> <dt id="$ctx->reset"><a class="permalink" href="#$ctx-%3Ereset">#</a><a id="reset"></a><a id="ctx-reset"></a>$ctx->reset</dt> <dd> <p>This is just an alias for $ctx->new.</p> </dd> <dt id="$ctx->add($data,...)"><a class="permalink" href="#$ctx-%3Eadd($data,...)">#</a><a id="add"></a><a id="ctx-add-data"></a>$ctx->add($data,...)</dt> <dd> <p>The $data provided as argument are appended to the message we calculate the digest for. The return value is the $ctx object itself.</p> </dd> <dt id="$ctx->addfile($io_handle)"><a class="permalink" href="#$ctx-%3Eaddfile($io_handle)">#</a><a id="addfile"></a><a id="ctx-addfile-io_handle"></a>$ctx->addfile($io_handle)</dt> <dd> <p>The $io_handle is read until EOF and the content is appended to the message we calculate the digest for. The return value is the $ctx object itself.</p> </dd> <dt id="$ctx->digest"><a class="permalink" href="#$ctx-%3Edigest">#</a><a id="digest"></a><a id="ctx-digest"></a>$ctx->digest</dt> <dd> <p>Return the binary digest for the message.</p> <p>Note that the <code>digest</code> operation is effectively a destructive, read-once operation. Once it has been performed, the $ctx object is automatically <code>reset</code> and can be used to calculate another digest value. Call $ctx->clone->digest if you want to calculate the digest without reseting the digest state.</p> </dd> <dt id="$ctx->hexdigest"><a class="permalink" href="#$ctx-%3Ehexdigest">#</a><a id="hexdigest"></a><a id="ctx-hexdigest"></a>$ctx->hexdigest</dt> <dd> <p>Same as $ctx->digest, but will return the digest in hexadecimal form.</p> </dd> <dt id="$ctx->b64digest"><a class="permalink" href="#$ctx-%3Eb64digest">#</a><a id="b64digest"></a><a id="ctx-b64digest"></a>$ctx->b64digest</dt> <dd> <p>Same as $ctx->digest, but will return the digest as a base64 encoded string.</p> </dd> </dl> <h1 id="SEE-ALSO"><a class="permalink" href="#SEE-ALSO">#</a><a id="SEE"></a>SEE ALSO</h1> <p><a href="/5.8.1/Digest::MD5">Digest::MD5</a>, <a href="/5.8.1/Digest::SHA1">Digest::SHA1</a>, <a href="/5.8.1/Digest::HMAC">Digest::HMAC</a>, <a href="/5.8.1/Digest::MD2">Digest::MD2</a></p> <p><a href="/5.8.1/MIME::Base64">MIME::Base64</a></p> <h1 id="AUTHOR"><a class="permalink" href="#AUTHOR">#</a>AUTHOR</h1> <p>Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no></p> <p>The <code>Digest::</code> interface is based on the interface originally developed by Neil Winton for his <code>MD5</code> module.</p> </div> <div id="footer"> <p>Perldoc Browser is maintained by Dan Book (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/DBOOK">DBOOK</a>). 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