Crate chksum_core

Core traits and functions for straightforward hash computation of bytes, files, directories and more.

Setup

To use this crate, add the following entry to your Cargo.toml file in the dependencies section:

[dependencies]
chksum-core = "0.0.0"

Alternatively, you can use the cargo add subcommand:

cargo add chksum-core

Example Crates

For implementation-specific examples, refer to the source code of the following crates:

• chksum-md5
• chksum-sha1
• chksum-sha2
  • chksum-sha2-224
  • chksum-sha2-256
  • chksum-sha2-384
  • chksum-sha2-512

License

This crate is licensed under the MIT License.

Re-exports

• pub use chksum_hash_core as hash;

Enums

• Error
  The error type for checksum-based operations.

Traits

• Chksumable
  A trait for complex objects which must be processed chunk by chunk.
• Digest
  A trait for hash digests.
• Hash
  A trait for hash objects.
• Hashable
  A trait for simple bytes-like objects.

Functions

• chksum
  Computes the hash of the given input.
• default
  Creates a default hash.
• hash
  Computes the hash of the given input.

Type Aliases

• Result
  A specialized Result type for checksum-based operations.