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NAME
- libhashsum - Library for calculating the cryptographic hashes
+ libhashsum - library for calculating the cryptographic hashes
DESCRIPTION
- libhashsum provides a unified interface for several
- cryptographic hash functions. Currently supported
+ The libhashsum library provides a unified interface for
+ several cryptographic hash functions. Currently supported
hash functions are:
Built in
@@ -11,17 +11,17 @@ DESCRIPTION
RIPEMD-320
Via libsha1
- SHA0, SHA1
+ SHA-0, SHA-1
Via libsha2
SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, SHA-512/224,
SHA-512/256
Via libkeccak>=1.3
- Keccak[], Keccak-224, Keccak-256, Keccak-384,
- Keccak-512, SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, SHA3-512,
- SHAKE128, SHAKE256, SHAKE512, RawSHAKE128,
- RawSHAKE256, RawSHAKE512
+ Keccak, Keccak-224, Keccak-256, Keccak-384,
+ Keccak-512, SHA-3-224, SHA-3-256, SHA-3-384,
+ SHA-3-512, SHAKE128, SHAKE256, SHAKE512,
+ RawSHAKE128, RawSHAKE256, RawSHAKE512
Via libblake>=1.1
BLAKE224, BLAKE256, BLAKE384, BLAKE512
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
hash function. It also have a function that can parse
a string describing any support function with its
parameters. For hash function that do not require
- any parameters, it has a function that can select
- the appropriate initialiser based on an enum value
- that specifies the algorithm.
+ any parameters, or only have optional parameters with
+ obvious default values, it has a function that can
+ select the appropriate initialiser based on an enum
+ value that specifies the algorithm.