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      1 // Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
      2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
      3 // found in the LICENSE file.
      4 
      5 #ifndef BASE_MD5_H_
      6 #define BASE_MD5_H_
      7 
      8 #include <stddef.h>
      9 #include <stdint.h>
     10 
     11 #include "base/base_export.h"
     12 #include "base/strings/string_piece.h"
     13 
     14 namespace base {
     15 
     16 // MD5 stands for Message Digest algorithm 5.
     17 // MD5 is a robust hash function, designed for cyptography, but often used
     18 // for file checksums.  The code is complex and slow, but has few
     19 // collisions.
     20 // See Also:
     21 //   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5
     22 
     23 // These functions perform MD5 operations. The simplest call is MD5Sum() to
     24 // generate the MD5 sum of the given data.
     25 //
     26 // You can also compute the MD5 sum of data incrementally by making multiple
     27 // calls to MD5Update():
     28 //   MD5Context ctx; // intermediate MD5 data: do not use
     29 //   MD5Init(&ctx);
     30 //   MD5Update(&ctx, data1, length1);
     31 //   MD5Update(&ctx, data2, length2);
     32 //   ...
     33 //
     34 //   MD5Digest digest; // the result of the computation
     35 //   MD5Final(&digest, &ctx);
     36 //
     37 // You can call MD5DigestToBase16() to generate a string of the digest.
     38 
     39 // The output of an MD5 operation.
     40 struct MD5Digest {
     41   uint8_t a[16];
     42 };
     43 
     44 // Used for storing intermediate data during an MD5 computation. Callers
     45 // should not access the data.
     46 typedef char MD5Context[88];
     47 
     48 // Initializes the given MD5 context structure for subsequent calls to
     49 // MD5Update().
     50 BASE_EXPORT void MD5Init(MD5Context* context);
     51 
     52 // For the given buffer of |data| as a StringPiece, updates the given MD5
     53 // context with the sum of the data. You can call this any number of times
     54 // during the computation, except that MD5Init() must have been called first.
     55 BASE_EXPORT void MD5Update(MD5Context* context, const StringPiece& data);
     56 
     57 // Finalizes the MD5 operation and fills the buffer with the digest.
     58 BASE_EXPORT void MD5Final(MD5Digest* digest, MD5Context* context);
     59 
     60 // MD5IntermediateFinal() generates a digest without finalizing the MD5
     61 // operation.  Can be used to generate digests for the input seen thus far,
     62 // without affecting the digest generated for the entire input.
     63 BASE_EXPORT void MD5IntermediateFinal(MD5Digest* digest,
     64                                       const MD5Context* context);
     65 
     66 // Converts a digest into human-readable hexadecimal.
     67 BASE_EXPORT std::string MD5DigestToBase16(const MD5Digest& digest);
     68 
     69 // Computes the MD5 sum of the given data buffer with the given length.
     70 // The given 'digest' structure will be filled with the result data.
     71 BASE_EXPORT void MD5Sum(const void* data, size_t length, MD5Digest* digest);
     72 
     73 // Returns the MD5 (in hexadecimal) of a string.
     74 BASE_EXPORT std::string MD5String(const StringPiece& str);
     75 
     76 }  // namespace base
     77 
     78 #endif  // BASE_MD5_H_
     79