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diff --git a/libar2simplified_crypt.3 b/libar2simplified_crypt.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6b6a0e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/libar2simplified_crypt.3 @@ -0,0 +1,132 @@ +.TH LIBAR2SIMPLIFIED_CRYPT 3 LIBAR2SIMPLIFIED +.SH NAME +libar2simplified_crypt - Hash a password with Argon2 + +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +#include <libar2simplified.h> + +char *libar2simplified_crypt(char *\fImsg\fP, const char *\fIparams\fP, char *\fIrv\fP); +.fi +.PP +Link with +.IR "-lar2simplified -lar2 -lblake -lrt -pthread" . + +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR libar2simplified_crypt () +function calculates an Argon2 if the message +provided in the +.I msg +parameter, which must be a NUL-terminated string, +according to the hashing parameters specified in the +.I params +parameter, which must not contain any excess data +(the tag (expected hash result) is not considered +excess data). See +.BR libar2_hash (3) +for more information about +.IR params . +The hash (tag) is stored, in raw binary format +(does not include the hashing parameters) in +the buffer provided via the +.I hash +parameter. This buffer must be at least +.I libar2_hash_buf_size(params) +bytes large. +.PP +.I params +may use the extended format specified in +.BR libar2simplified_encode (3). +.PP +The +.BR libar2simplified_hash (3) +function will erase (not deallocate) the contents of +.I msg +before returning. +.PP +If +.I rv +is +.IR NULL , +the returned pointer will shall be deallocated +using the +.BR free (3) +function, otherwise the function will return +.I rv +and +.I rv +must have an allocation size of at least +.I libar2_hash_buf_size(libar2simplified_decode(params, NULL, NULL, NULL)) +bytes (note however that the pointer returned by +.BR libar2simplified_decode (3) +shall be deallocated by the application). +.PP +If +.I params +specifies an exact hash and salt (and not just +their lengths), the returned string will be +equal to +.I params +if +.I msg +specifies the password that was used to create it, +and only with extreme unlikelyhood be equal to +.I params +otherwise. +.PP +Only +.I rv +may be +.IR NULL . + +.SH RETURN VALUES +The +.BR libar2simplified_crypt () +function returns +.I rv +upon successful completion, or if +.I rv +is +.IR NULL , +a +.RI non- NULL +pointer to dynamically allocated memory; +the content will contain a hashing parameter +string with the hashing result and the salt +that was generated or provided. +On error, +.I NULL +is returned and +.I errno +is set to describe the error. + +.SH ERRORS +The +.BR libar2simplified_crypt () +function will fail if: +.TP +.B EINVAL +The contents of +.I str +is invalid or unsupported. +.TP +.B ENOMEM +Insufficient storage space is available. +.TP +.BR ENOSPC " or " EAGAIN +A resource required to initialise some item +needed for threading-support has been exhausted +or the number of instances of such items have +been reached. +.TP +.B EOWNERDEAD +A thread terminated unexpectedly. + +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR libar2simplified (7), +.BR libar2simplified_encode (3), +.BR libar2simplified_hash (3), +.BR libar2_hash (3), +.BR libar2_hash_buf_size (3), +.BR crypt (3), |