digest — Command to calculate message digests

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Introduction

The digest utility calculates message digests of files or, if no file is specified, standard input. The set of supported digests depends on the current Python interpreter and the version of OpenSSL present on the system. However, at a minimum, digest supports the following algorithms:

md5: The MD5 algorithm
sha1: The SHA1 algorithm
sha224: The SHA224 algorithm
sha256: The SHA256 algorithm
sha384: The SHA384 algorithm
sha512: The SHA512 algorithm

Usage

digest -v digest -h digest [-b BUFSIZE] algorithm [file] …

Run digest -h to see a list of algorithms supported by your Python installation.

Getting and installing digest

Easiest:

pip install digest

Installing from source

Clone the repo, and run the setup:

$ git clone https://github.com/bmc/digest
$ cd digest
$ python setup.py install

But pip is easier…

Author

Brian M. Clapper, bmc@clapper.org

Copyright

License

BSD-style license. See the accompanying license file.

Patches

I gladly accept patches from their original authors. Feel free to email patches to me or to fork the GitHub repository and send me a pull request. Along with any patch you send:

Please state that the patch is your original work.
Please indicate that you license the work to the digest project under a BSD License.