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12.Dd February 25, 1999
13.Dt SHA 3
14.Os FreeBSD 4.0
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_Data ,
22.Nm SHA1_Init ,
23.Nm SHA1_Update ,
24.Nm SHA1_Final ,
25.Nm SHA1_End ,
26.Nm SHA1_File ,
27.Nm SHA1_Data
28.Nd calculate the FIPS 160 and 160-1 ``SHA'' message digests
29.Sh LIBRARY
30.Lb libmd
31.Sh SYNOPSIS
32.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
33.Fd #include <sha.h>
34.Ft void
35.Fn SHA_Init "SHA_CTX *context"
36.Ft void
37.Fn SHA_Update "SHA_CTX *context" "const unsigned char *data" "unsigned int len"
38.Ft void
39.Fn SHA_Final "unsigned char digest[20]" "SHA_CTX *context"
40.Ft "char *"
41.Fn SHA_End "SHA_CTX *context" "char *buf"
42.Ft "char *"
43.Fn SHA_File "const char *filename" "char *buf"
44.Ft "char *"
45.Fn SHA_Data "const unsigned char *data" "unsigned int len" "char *buf"
46.Ft void
47.Fn SHA1_Init "SHA_CTX *context"
48.Ft void
49.Fn SHA1_Update "SHA_CTX *context" "const unsigned char *data" "unsigned int len"
50.Ft void
51.Fn SHA1_Final "unsigned char digest[20]" "SHA_CTX *context"
52.Ft "char *"
53.Fn SHA1_End "SHA_CTX *context" "char *buf"
54.Ft "char *"
55.Fn SHA1_File "const char *filename" "char *buf"
56.Ft "char *"
57.Fn SHA1_Data "const unsigned char *data" "unsigned int len" "char *buf"
58.Sh DESCRIPTION
59The
60.Li SHA_
61and
62.Li SHA1_
63functions calculate a 160-bit cryptographic checksum (digest)
64for any number of input bytes.  A cryptographic checksum is a one-way
65hash function; that is, it is computationally impractical to find
66the input corresponding to a particular output.  This net result is
67a ``fingerprint'' of the input-data, which doesn't disclose the actual
68input.
69.Pp
70.Tn SHA
71.Pq \&or Tn SHA-0
72is the original Secure Hash Algorithm specified in
73.Tn FIPS
74160.  It was quickly proven insecure, and has been superseded by
75.Tn SHA-1 .
76.Tn SHA-0
77is included for compatibility purposes only.
78.Pp
79The
80.Fn SHA1_Init  ,
81.Fn SHA1_Update ,
82and
83.Fn SHA1_Final
84functions are the core functions.  Allocate an SHA_CTX, initialize it with
85.Fn SHA1_Init ,
86run over the data with
87.Fn SHA1_Update ,
88and finally extract the result using
89.Fn SHA1_Final .
90.Pp
91.Fn SHA1_End
92is a wrapper for
93.Fn SHA1_Final
94which converts the return value to a 41-character
95(including the terminating '\e0')
96.Tn ASCII
97string which represents the 160 bits in hexadecimal.
98.Pp
99.Fn SHA1_File
100calculates the digest of a file, and uses
101.Fn SHA1_End
102to return the result.
103If the file cannot be opened, a null pointer is returned.
104.Fn SHA1_Data
105calculates the digest of a chunk of data in memory, and uses
106.Fn SHA1_End
107to return the result.
108.Pp
109When using
110.Fn SHA1_End ,
111.Fn SHA1_File ,
112or
113.Fn SHA1_Data ,
114the
115.Ar 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.Ar buf
124argument is non-null it must point to at least 41 characters of buffer space.
125.Sh SEE ALSO
126.Xr md2 3 ,
127.Xr md4 3 ,
128.Xr md5 3 ,
129.Xr ripemd 3
130.Sh AUTHORS
131The core hash routines were implemented by Eric Young based on the
132published
133.Tn FIPS
134standards.
135.Sh HISTORY
136These functions appeared in
137.Fx 4.0 .
138.Sh BUGS
139No method is known to exist which finds two files having the same hash value,
140nor to find a file with a specific hash value.
141There is on the other hand no guarantee that such a method doesn't exist.
142.Pp
143The
144.Tn IA32
145(Intel) implementation of
146.Tn SHA-1
147makes heavy use of the
148.Ql bswapl
149instruction, which is not present on the original 80386.  Attempts
150to use
151.Tn SHA-1
152on those processors will cause an illegal instruction trap.
153(Arguably, the kernel should simply emulate this instruction.)
154