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12.Dd July 20, 2018
13.Dt SHA 3
14.Os
15.Sh NAME
16.Nm SHA_Init ,
17.Nm SHA_Update ,
18.Nm SHA_Final ,
19.Nm SHA_End ,
20.Nm SHA_File ,
21.Nm SHA_FileChunk ,
22.Nm SHA_Data ,
23.Nm SHA1_Init ,
24.Nm SHA1_Update ,
25.Nm SHA1_Final ,
26.Nm SHA1_End ,
27.Nm SHA1_File ,
28.Nm SHA1_FileChunk ,
29.Nm SHA1_Data
30.Nd calculate the FIPS 160 and 160-1 ``SHA'' message digests
31.Sh LIBRARY
32.Lb libmd
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.In sys/types.h
35.In sha.h
36.Ft void
37.Fn SHA_Init "SHA_CTX *context"
38.Ft void
39.Fn SHA_Update "SHA_CTX *context" "const unsigned char *data" "size_t len"
40.Ft void
41.Fn SHA_Final "unsigned char digest[20]" "SHA_CTX *context"
42.Ft "char *"
43.Fn SHA_End "SHA_CTX *context" "char *buf"
44.Ft "char *"
45.Fn SHA_File "const char *filename" "char *buf"
46.Ft "char *"
47.Fn SHA_FileChunk "const char *filename" "char *buf" "off_t offset" "off_t length"
48.Ft "char *"
49.Fn SHA_Data "const unsigned char *data" "unsigned int len" "char *buf"
50.Ft void
51.Fn SHA1_Init "SHA_CTX *context"
52.Ft void
53.Fn SHA1_Update "SHA_CTX *context" "const unsigned char *data" "size_t len"
54.Ft void
55.Fn SHA1_Final "unsigned char digest[20]" "SHA_CTX *context"
56.Ft "char *"
57.Fn SHA1_End "SHA_CTX *context" "char *buf"
58.Ft "char *"
59.Fn SHA1_File "const char *filename" "char *buf"
60.Ft "char *"
61.Fn SHA1_FileChunk "const char *filename" "char *buf" "off_t offset" "off_t length"
62.Ft "char *"
63.Fn SHA1_Data "const unsigned char *data" "unsigned int len" "char *buf"
64.Sh DESCRIPTION
65The
66.Li SHA_
67and
68.Li SHA1_
69functions calculate a 160-bit cryptographic checksum (digest)
70for any number of input bytes.
71A cryptographic checksum is a one-way
72hash function; that is, it is computationally impractical to find
73the input corresponding to a particular output.
74This net result is
75a
76.Dq fingerprint
77of the input-data, which does not disclose the actual input.
78.Pp
79.Tn SHA
80(or
81.Tn SHA-0 )
82is the original Secure Hash Algorithm specified in
83.Tn FIPS
84160.
85It was quickly proven insecure, and has been superseded by
86.Tn SHA-1 .
87.Tn SHA-0
88is included for compatibility purposes only.
89.Pp
90The
91.Fn SHA1_Init ,
92.Fn SHA1_Update ,
93and
94.Fn SHA1_Final
95functions are the core functions.
96Allocate an
97.Vt SHA_CTX ,
98initialize it with
99.Fn SHA1_Init ,
100run over the data with
101.Fn SHA1_Update ,
102and finally extract the result using
103.Fn SHA1_Final ,
104which will also erase the
105.Vt SHA_CTX .
106.Pp
107.Fn SHA1_End
108is a wrapper for
109.Fn SHA1_Final
110which converts the return value to a 41-character
111(including the terminating '\e0')
112.Tn ASCII
113string which represents the 160 bits in hexadecimal.
114.Pp
115.Fn SHA1_File
116calculates the digest of a file, and uses
117.Fn SHA1_End
118to return the result.
119If the file cannot be opened, a null pointer is returned.
120.Fn SHA1_FileChunk
121is similar to
122.Fn SHA1_File ,
123but it only calculates the digest over a byte-range of the file specified,
124starting at
125.Fa offset
126and spanning
127.Fa length
128bytes.
129If the
130.Fa length
131parameter is specified as 0, or more than the length of the remaining part
132of the file,
133.Fn SHA1_FileChunk
134calculates the digest from
135.Fa offset
136to the end of file.
137.Fn SHA1_Data
138calculates the digest of a chunk of data in memory, and uses
139.Fn SHA1_End
140to return the result.
141.Pp
142When using
143.Fn SHA1_End ,
144.Fn SHA1_File ,
145or
146.Fn SHA1_Data ,
147the
148.Fa buf
149argument can be a null pointer, in which case the returned string
150is allocated with
151.Xr malloc 3
152and subsequently must be explicitly deallocated using
153.Xr free 3
154after use.
155If the
156.Fa buf
157argument is non-null it must point to at least 41 characters of buffer space.
158.Sh SEE ALSO
159.Xr md4 3 ,
160.Xr md5 3 ,
161.Xr ripemd 3 ,
162.Xr sha256 3 ,
163.Xr sha512 3 ,
164.Xr skein 3
165.Sh HISTORY
166These functions appeared in
167.Fx 4.0 .
168.Sh AUTHORS
169The core hash routines were implemented by Eric Young based on the
170published
171.Tn FIPS
172standards.
173.Sh BUGS
174No method is known to exist which finds two files having the same hash value,
175nor to find a file with a specific hash value.
176There is on the other hand no guarantee that such a method does not exist.
177.Pp
178The
179.Tn IA32
180(Intel) implementation of
181.Tn SHA-1
182makes heavy use of the
183.Ql bswapl
184instruction, which is not present on the original 80386.
185Attempts to use
186.Tn SHA-1
187on those processors will cause an illegal instruction trap.
188(Arguably, the kernel should simply emulate this instruction.)
189