Name

SHA1, SHA1_Init
SHA1_Update, SHA1_Final

Secure Hash Algorithm, is a cryptographic hash function with a 160 bit output

Library

libcrypto.lib

Synopsis

#include <openssl/sha.h>

unsigned char *SHA1(const unsigned char *d, unsigned long n, unsigned char *md);

void SHA1_Init(SHA_CTX *c);
void SHA1_Update(SHA_CTX *c, const void *data, unsigned long len);
void SHA1_Final(unsigned char *md, SHA_CTX *c);

Detailed Description

SHA-1 (Secure Hash Algorithm) is a cryptographic hash function with a 160 bit output.

SHA1() computes the SHA-1 message digest of the n bytes at d and places it in md (which must have space for SHA_DIGEST_LENGTH == 20 bytes of output). If md is NULL, the digest is placed in a static array.

The following functions may be used if the message is not completely stored in memory:

SHA1_Init() initializes a SHA_CTX structure.

SHA1_Update() can be called repeatedly with chunks of the message to be hashed (len bytes at data).

SHA1_Final() places the message digest in md, which must have space for SHA_DIGEST_LENGTH == 20 bytes of output, and erases the SHA_CTX.

Applications should use the higher level functions EVP_DigestInit() etc. instead of calling the hash functions directly.

The predecessor of SHA-1, SHA, is also implemented, but it should be used only when backward compatibility is required.

Return Values

SHA1() returns a pointer to the hash value.

SHA1_Init(), SHA1_Update() and SHA1_Final() do not return values.

Conforming To

SHA: US Federal Information Processing Standard FIPS PUB 180 (Secure Hash Standard), SHA-1: US Federal Information Processing Standard FIPS PUB 180-1 (Secure Hash Standard), ANSI X9.30

See Also

hmac(), EVP_DigestInit()

History

SHA1(), SHA1_Init(), SHA1_Update() and SHA1_Final() are available in all versions of SSLeay and OpenSSL.

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