47 lines
1.8 KiB
OCaml
47 lines
1.8 KiB
OCaml
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(* *)
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(* Objective Caml *)
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(* *)
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(* Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt *)
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(* *)
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(* Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et *)
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(* en Automatique. All rights reserved. This file is distributed *)
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(* under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License. *)
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(* *)
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(***********************************************************************)
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(* $Id$ *)
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(** MD5 message digest.
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This module provides functions to compute 128-bit ``digests'' of
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arbitrary-length strings or files. The digests are of cryptographic
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quality: it is very hard, given a digest, to forge a string having
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that digest. The algorithm used is MD5.
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*)
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type t = string
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(** The type of digests: 16-character strings. *)
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val string : string -> t
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(** Return the digest of the given string. *)
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val substring : string -> int -> int -> t
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(** [Digest.substring s ofs len] returns the digest of the substring
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of [s] starting at character number [ofs] and containing [len]
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characters. *)
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external channel : in_channel -> int -> t = "md5_chan"
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(** [Digest.channel ic len] reads [len] characters from channel [ic]
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and returns their digest. *)
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val file : string -> t
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(** Return the digest of the file whose name is given. *)
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val output : out_channel -> t -> unit
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(** Write a digest on the given output channel. *)
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val input : in_channel -> t
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(** Read a digest from the given input channel. *)
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