BatDigest

# Module BatDigest

    module BatDigest: sig .. end

MD5 message digest.

This module provides functions to compute 128-bit ``digests'' of arbitrary-length strings or files. The digests are of cryptographic quality: it is very hard, given a digest, to forge a string having that digest. The algorithm used is MD5.

This module extends Stdlib's Digest module, go there for documentation on the rest of the functions and types.
Author(s): Xavier Leroy (Base module), David Rajchenbach-Teller

    val channel : BatIO.input -> int -> Digest.t

If `len` is nonnegative, `Digest.channel ic len` reads `len` characters from channel `ic` and returns their digest, or raises `End_of_file` if end-of-file is reached before `len` characters are read. If `len` is negative, `Digest.channel ic len` reads all characters from `ic` until end-of-file is reached and return their digest.

Note This version of `channel` is currently very inefficient if `len` < 0 and requires copying the whole input to a temporary file.

    val output : 'a BatIO.output -> Digest.t -> unit

Write a digest on the given output.

    val input : BatIO.input -> Digest.t

Read a digest from the given input.

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