(**************************************************************************) (* *) (* OCaml *) (* *) (* Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt *) (* *) (* Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et *) (* en Automatique. *) (* *) (* All rights reserved. This file is distributed under the terms of *) (* the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1, with the *) (* special exception on linking described in the file LICENSE. *) (* *) (**************************************************************************) (** Message digest. This module provides functions to compute 'digests', also known as 'hashes', of arbitrary-length strings or files. The supported hashing algorithms are BLAKE2 and MD5. *) (** {1 Basic functions} *) (** The functions in this section use the MD5 hash function to produce 128-bit digests (16 bytes). MD5 is not cryptographically secure. Hence, these functions should not be used for security-sensitive applications. The BLAKE2 functions below are cryptographically secure. *) type t = string (** The type of digests: 16-byte strings. *) val compare : t -> t -> int (** The comparison function for 16-byte digests, with the same specification as {!Stdlib.compare} and the implementation shared with {!String.compare}. Along with the type [t], this function [compare] allows the module [Digest] to be passed as argument to the functors {!Set.Make} and {!Map.Make}. @since 4.00 *) val equal : t -> t -> bool (** The equal function for 16-byte digests. @since 4.03 *) val string : string -> t (** Return the digest of the given string. *) val bytes : bytes -> t (** Return the digest of the given byte sequence. @since 4.02 *) val substring : string -> int -> int -> t (** [Digest.substring s ofs len] returns the digest of the substring of [s] starting at index [ofs] and containing [len] characters. *) val subbytes : bytes -> int -> int -> t (** [Digest.subbytes s ofs len] returns the digest of the subsequence of [s] starting at index [ofs] and containing [len] bytes. @since 4.02 *) val channel : in_channel -> int -> t (** If [len] is nonnegative, [Digest.channel ic len] reads [len] characters from channel [ic] and returns their digest, or raises [End_of_file] if end-of-file is reached before [len] characters are read. If [len] is negative, [Digest.channel ic len] reads all characters from [ic] until end-of-file is reached and return their digest. *) val file : string -> t (** Return the digest of the file whose name is given. *) val output : out_channel -> t -> unit (** Write a digest on the given output channel. *) val input : in_channel -> t (** Read a digest from the given input channel. *) val to_hex : t -> string (** Return the printable hexadecimal representation of the given digest. @raise Invalid_argument if the argument is not exactly 16 bytes. *) val of_hex : string -> t (** Convert a hexadecimal representation back into the corresponding digest. @raise Invalid_argument if the argument is not exactly 32 hexadecimal characters. @since 5.2 *) val from_hex : string -> t (** Same function as {!Digest.of_hex}. @since 4.00 *) (** {1 Generic interface} *) module type S = sig type t = string (** The type of digests. *) val hash_length : int (** The length of digests, in bytes. *) val compare : t -> t -> int (** Compare two digests, with the same specification as {!Stdlib.compare}. *) val equal : t -> t -> bool (** Test two digests for equality. *) val string : string -> t (** Return the digest of the given string. *) val bytes : bytes -> t (** Return the digest of the given byte sequence. *) val substring : string -> int -> int -> t (** [substring s ofs len] returns the digest of the substring of [s] starting at index [ofs] and containing [len] characters. *) val subbytes : bytes -> int -> int -> t (** [subbytes s ofs len] returns the digest of the subsequence of [s] starting at index [ofs] and containing [len] bytes. *) val channel : in_channel -> int -> t (** Read characters from the channel and return their digest. See {!Digest.channel} for the full specification. *) val file : string -> t (** Return the digest of the file whose name is given. *) val output : out_channel -> t -> unit (** Write a digest on the given output channel. *) val input : in_channel -> t (** Read a digest from the given input channel. *) val to_hex : t -> string (** Return the printable hexadecimal representation of the given digest. @raise Invalid_argument if the length of the argument is not [hash_length], *) val of_hex : string -> t (** Convert a hexadecimal representation back into the corresponding digest. @raise Invalid_argument if the length of the argument is not [2 * hash_length], or if the arguments contains non-hexadecimal characters. *) end (** The signature for a hash function that produces digests of length [hash_length] from character strings, byte arrays, and files. @since 5.2 *) (** {1 Specific hash functions} *) module BLAKE128 : S (** [BLAKE128] is the BLAKE2b hash function producing 128-bit (16-byte) digests. It is cryptographically secure. However, the small size of the digests enables brute-force attacks in [2{^64}] attempts. @since 5.2 *) module BLAKE256 : S (** [BLAKE256] is the BLAKE2b hash function producing 256-bit (32-byte) digests. It is cryptographically secure, and the digests are large enough to thwart brute-force attacks. @since 5.2 *) module BLAKE512 : S (** [BLAKE512] is the BLAKE2b hash function producing 512-bit (64-byte) digests. It is cryptographically secure, and the digests are large enough to thwart brute-force attacks. @since 5.2 *) module MD5 : S (** [MD5] is the MD5 hash function. It produces 128-bit (16-byte) digests and is not cryptographically secure at all. It should be used only for compatibility with earlier designs that mandate the use of MD5. @since 5.2 *)