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SHA

# SHA

Usage is very straightforward:

    julia> using SHA

    julia> bytes2hex(sha256("test"))
    "9f86d081884c7d659a2feaa0c55ad015a3bf4f1b2b0b822cd15d6c15b0f00a08"

Each exported function (at the time of this writing, SHA-1, SHA-2 224, 256, 384 and 512, and SHA-3 224, 256, 384 and 512 functions are implemented) takes in either an `Array{UInt8}`, a `ByteString` or an `IO` object. This makes it trivial to checksum a file:

    shell> cat /tmp/test.txt
    test
    julia> using SHA

    julia> open("/tmp/test.txt") do f
               sha2_256(f)
           end
    32-element Array{UInt8,1}:
     0x9f
     0x86
     0xd0
     0x81
     0x88
     0x4c
     0x7d
     0x65
        ⋮
     0x5d
     0x6c
     0x15
     0xb0
     0xf0
     0x0a
     0x08

Note the lack of a newline at the end of `/tmp/text.txt`. Julia automatically inserts a newline before the `julia>` prompt.

Due to the colloquial usage of `sha256` to refer to `sha2_256`, convenience functions are provided, mapping `shaxxx()` function calls to `sha2_xxx()`. For SHA-3, no such colloquialisms exist and the user must use the full `sha3_xxx()` names.

`shaxxx()` takes `AbstractString` and array-like objects (`NTuple` and `Array`) with elements of type `UInt8`.

Note that, at the time of this writing, the SHA3 code is not optimized, and as such is roughly an order of magnitude slower than SHA2.