My name: Rafael R. Sevilla My email addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] My CPAN user ID (already registered): DIDO I've created a new module named SHA256 which is to be an interface to the new SHA256/384/512 algorithm developed by NIST as a counterpart to AES (at present it only supports SHA256, but that will change as soon as I fix the code for SHA384 and SHA512). The interface for this is essentially the same as that of the original SHA module (on which the code is partly based), and defines these methods: reset() - reset the hash add(LIST) - add a list of strings to the hash addfile(HANDLE) - adds the contents of a file to the hash digest() - finalizes the digest, returning the digest value in binary hexdigest() - same as above, except that it returns a hexadecimal string representing the digest hash($string) - convenience method - hashes a string by doing add(string) then digest() hexhash($string) - same as above except it uses hexdigest() instead of digest() I'll also add an additional method in the future: settype(number) - which accepts 256, 384 or 512 and uses the appropriate hash size. DSLI for this modules: Name DSLI Description Info ------------- ---- -------------------------------------------- ----- SHA256 bdch NIST SHA-256/512/384 message digest algo. DIDO They ought to wind up in category 14: Authentication, Security, and Encryption. -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, InterdotNet Philippines +63(917) 4458925
