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MD5(9) | Kernel Developer's Manual | MD5(9) |
NAME¶
MD5
, MD5Init
,
MD5Transform
— message
digest routines
SYNOPSIS¶
#include
<sys/types.h>
#include <sys/md5.h>
void
MD5Init
(MD5_CTX
*buf);
void
MD5Transform
(uint32_t
buf[4], const unsigned
char block[64]);
DESCRIPTION¶
The MD5
module implements the RSA Data
Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm (MD5). It produces 128-bit MD5
Digest of data.
- MD5Init
- must be called just before
MD5Transform
() will be used to produce a digest. The buf argument is the storage for the digest being produced on subsequent calls to theMD5Transform
() routine. - MD5Transform
- is the core of the MD5 algorithm, this alters an existing MD5 hash kept in buf to reflect the addition of 64 characters of new data passed in block argument.
COPYRIGHTS¶
The code for MD5 transform was taken from Colin Plumb's implementation, which has been placed in the public domain. The MD5 cryptographic checksum was devised by Ronald Rivest, and is documented in RFC 1321, "The MD5 Message Digest Algorithm".
April 17, 1996 | Debian |