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Digest provides a framework for message digest libraries.
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You may want to look at OpenSSL::Digest as it supports more algorithms.
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A cryptographic hash function is a procedure that takes data and returns a fixed
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bit string: the hash value, also known as digest. Hash functions are also called
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one-way functions, it is easy to compute a digest from a message, but it is
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infeasible to generate a message from a digest.
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