void
MD4Init(
MD4_CTX *context
)
void
MD4Update(
MD4_CTX *context
, const unsigned char *data
, unsigned int len
)
void
MD4Final(
unsigned char digest[16]
, MD4_CTX *context
)
char *
MD4End(
MD4_CTX *context
, char *buf
)
char *
MD4File(
const char *filename
, char *buf
)
char *
MD4Data(
const unsigned char *data
, unsigned int len
, char *buf
)
MD2 is the slowest, MD4 is the fastest and MD5 is somewhere in the middle. MD2 can only be used for Privacy-Enhanced Mail. MD4 has been criticized for being too weak, so MD5 was developed in response as ``MD4 with safety-belts''. When in doubt, use MD5.
The
MD4Init(),
MD4Update(
),
and
MD4Final(
)
functions are the core functions.
Allocate an MD4_CTX, initialize it with
MD4Init(
),
run over the data with
MD4Update(
),
and finally extract the result using
MD4Final(
).
MD4End()
is a wrapper for
MD4Final(
)
which converts the return value to a 33-character
(including the terminating '\0')
ASCII
string which represents the 128 bits in hexadecimal.
MD4File()
calculates the digest of a file, and uses
MD4End(
)
to return the result.
If the file cannot be opened, a null pointer is returned.
MD4Data(
)
calculates the digest of a chunk of data in memory, and uses
MD4End(
)
to return the result.
When using
MD4End(),
MD4File(
),
or
MD4Data(
),
the
buf
argument can be a null pointer, in which case the returned string
is allocated with
malloc(3)
and subsequently must be explicitly deallocated using
free(3)
after use.
If the
buf
argument is non-null it must point to at least 33 characters of buffer space.
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