Ocamlnet 4 Reference Manual : Nettls_gnutls.Digests

# Module Nettls_gnutls.Digests

    module Digests: Netsys_crypto_types.DIGESTS

Cryptographic digests

Cryptographic digests.

Users should not call functions of the provider directly, but use `Netsys_digests`, or another higher-level layer.

    type digest

Describes a digest

    val digests : digest list

returns digests

    val find : string -> digest

Returns the digest of this name, or raises `Not_found`

    val name : digest -> string

returns the name of the digest. The name follows the format `<uppercasename>-<size>`, e.g. "MD5-128", "SHA1-160", "SHA2-256".

    val size : digest -> int

returns the size of the hash output (in bytes)

    val block_length : digest -> int

the block length (in bytes)

    type digest_ctx

A digest context stores state while digesting data

    val create : digest -> digest_ctx

Creates a fresh context

    val add : digest_ctx -> Netsys_types.memory -> unit

Adds data

    val finish : digest_ctx -> string

Returns the digest