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11.Dd July 20, 2018
12.Dt RIPEMD 3
13.Os
14.Sh NAME
15.Nm RIPEMD160_Init ,
16.Nm RIPEMD160_Update ,
17.Nm RIPEMD160_Final ,
18.Nm RIPEMD160_End ,
19.Nm RIPEMD160_File ,
20.Nm RIPEMD160_FileChunk ,
21.Nm RIPEMD160_Data
22.Nd calculate the RIPEMD160 message digest
23.Sh LIBRARY
24.Lb libmd
25.Sh SYNOPSIS
26.In sys/types.h
27.In ripemd.h
28.Ft void
29.Fn RIPEMD160_Init "RIPEMD160_CTX *context"
30.Ft void
31.Fn RIPEMD160_Update "RIPEMD160_CTX *context" "const unsigned char *data" "unsigned int len"
32.Ft void
33.Fn RIPEMD160_Final "unsigned char digest[20]" "RIPEMD160_CTX *context"
34.Ft "char *"
35.Fn RIPEMD160_End "RIPEMD160_CTX *context" "char *buf"
36.Ft "char *"
37.Fn RIPEMD160_File "const char *filename" "char *buf"
38.Ft "char *"
39.Fn RIPEMD160_FileChunk "const char *filename" "char *buf" "off_t offset" "off_t length"
40.Ft "char *"
41.Fn RIPEMD160_Data "const unsigned char *data" "unsigned int len" "char *buf"
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43The
44.Li RIPEMD160_
45functions calculate a 160-bit cryptographic checksum (digest)
46for any number of input bytes.
47A cryptographic checksum is a one-way
48hash function; that is, it is computationally impractical to find
49the input corresponding to a particular output.
50This net result is a
51.Dq fingerprint
52of the input-data, which does not disclose the actual input.
53.Pp
54The
55.Fn RIPEMD160_Init ,
56.Fn RIPEMD160_Update ,
57and
58.Fn RIPEMD160_Final
59functions are the core functions.
60Allocate an
61.Vt RIPEMD160_CTX ,
62initialize it with
63.Fn RIPEMD160_Init ,
64run over the data with
65.Fn RIPEMD160_Update ,
66and finally extract the result using
67.Fn RIPEMD160_Final ,
68which will also erase the
69.Vt RIPEMD160_CTX .
70.Pp
71The
72.Fn RIPEMD160_End
73function is a wrapper for
74.Fn RIPEMD160_Final
75which converts the return value to a 41-character
76(including the terminating '\e0')
77ASCII string which represents the 160 bits in hexadecimal.
78.Pp
79The
80.Fn RIPEMD160_File
81function calculates the digest of a file, and uses
82.Fn RIPEMD160_End
83to return the result.
84If the file cannot be opened, a null pointer is returned.
85The
86.Fn RIPEMD160_FileChunk
87function is similar to
88.Fn RIPEMD160_File ,
89but it only calculates the digest over a byte-range of the file specified,
90starting at
91.Fa offset
92and spanning
93.Fa length
94bytes.
95If the
96.Fa length
97parameter is specified as 0, or more than the length of the remaining part
98of the file,
99.Fn RIPEMD160_FileChunk
100calculates the digest from
101.Fa offset
102to the end of file.
103The
104.Fn RIPEMD160_Data
105function calculates the digest of a chunk of data in memory, and uses
106.Fn RIPEMD160_End
107to return the result.
108.Pp
109When using
110.Fn RIPEMD160_End ,
111.Fn RIPEMD160_File ,
112or
113.Fn RIPEMD160_Data ,
114the
115.Fa buf
116argument can be a null pointer, in which case the returned string
117is allocated with
118.Xr malloc 3
119and subsequently must be explicitly deallocated using
120.Xr free 3
121after use.
122If the
123.Fa buf
124argument is non-null it must point to at least 41 characters of buffer space.
125.Sh ERRORS
126The
127.Fn RIPEMD160_End
128function called with a null buf argument may fail and return NULL if:
129.Bl -tag -width Er
130.It Bq Er ENOMEM
131Insufficient storage space is available.
132.El
133.Pp
134The
135.Fn RIPEMD160_File
136and
137.Fn RIPEMD160_FileChunk
138may return NULL when underlying
139.Xr open 2 ,
140.Xr fstat 2 ,
141.Xr lseek 2 ,
142or
143.Xr RIPEMD160_End 3
144fail.
145.Sh SEE ALSO
146.Xr md4 3 ,
147.Xr md5 3 ,
148.Xr sha 3 ,
149.Xr sha256 3 ,
150.Xr sha512 3 ,
151.Xr skein 3
152.Sh HISTORY
153These functions appeared in
154.Fx 4.0 .
155.Sh AUTHORS
156The core hash routines were implemented by Eric Young based on the
157published RIPEMD160 specification.
158.Sh BUGS
159No method is known to exist which finds two files having the same hash value,
160nor to find a file with a specific hash value.
161There is on the other hand no guarantee that such a method does not exist.
162