// Copyright (c) 2006-2009 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. #ifndef BASE_MD5_H_ #define BASE_MD5_H_ #include <string> // MD5 stands for Message Digest algorithm 5. // MD5 is a robust hash function, designed for cyptography, but often used // for file checksums. The code is complex and slow, but has few // collisions. // See Also: // http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5 // These functions perform MD5 operations. The simplest call is MD5Sum() to // generate the MD5 sum of the given data. // // You can also compute the MD5 sum of data incrementally by making multiple // calls to MD5Update(): // MD5Context ctx; // intermediate MD5 data: do not use // MD5Init(&ctx); // MD5Update(&ctx, data1, length1); // MD5Update(&ctx, data2, length2); // ... // // MD5Digest digest; // the result of the computation // MD5Final(&digest, &ctx); // // You can call MD5DigestToBase16() to generate a string of the digest. // The output of an MD5 operation typedef struct MD5Digest_struct { unsigned char a[16]; } MD5Digest; // Used for storing intermediate data during an MD5 computation. Callers // should not access the data. typedef char MD5Context[88]; // Computes the MD5 sum of the given data buffer with the given length. // The given 'digest' structure will be filled with the result data. void MD5Sum(const void* data, size_t length, MD5Digest* digest); // Initializes the given MD5 context structure for subsequent calls to // MD5Update(). void MD5Init(MD5Context* context); // For the given buffer of data, updates the given MD5 context with the sum of // the data. You can call this any number of times during the computation, // except that MD5Init() must have been called first. void MD5Update(MD5Context* context, const void* buf, size_t len); // Finalizes the MD5 operation and fills the buffer with the digest. void MD5Final(MD5Digest* digest, MD5Context* pCtx); // Converts a digest into human-readable hexadecimal. std::string MD5DigestToBase16(const MD5Digest& digest); // Returns the MD5 (in hexadecimal) of a string. std::string MD5String(const std::string& str); #endif // BASE_MD5_H_