Digest

Digest

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NAME

Digest - Modules that calculate message digests

SYNOPSIS

$md5  = Digest->new("MD5");
$sha1 = Digest->new("SHA-1");
$sha256 = Digest->new("SHA-256");
$sha384 = Digest->new("SHA-384");
$sha512 = Digest->new("SHA-512");

$hmac = Digest->HMAC_MD5($key);

DESCRIPTION

The Digest:: modules calculate digests, also called "fingerprints" or "hashes", of some data, called a message. The digest is (usually) some small/fixed size string. The actual size of the