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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:

This program is modeled on the FreeBSD digest port (written by Alistair G. Crooks). This Python version is an independently implemented program based on the manual page and on output from Crooks’ program.

Usage

digest algorithm [file] …

If you run digest without any parameters, it will give you a usage message and will display the supported message digest algorithms for your installation.

Getting and installing digest

Installing via EasyInstall

Because digest is available via PyPI, if you have EasyInstall installed on your system, installing digest is as easy as running this command (usually as root or the system administrator):

easy_install digest

Installing from source

You can also install digest from source. Either download the source (as a zip or tarball) from http://github.com/bmc/digest/downloads, or you can make a local read-only clone of the GitHub repository using one of the following commands:

$ git clone git://github.com/bmc/digest.git
$ git clone http://github.com/bmc/digest.git

Once you have a local digest source directory, change your working directory to the source directory, and type:

python setup.py install

To install it somewhere other than the default location (such as in your home directory) type:

python setup.py install --prefix=$HOME

Author

Brian M. Clapper, bmc@clapper.org

Copyright © 2008-2010 Brian M. Clapper

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: