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This library implements some hash and cryptographic algorithms.

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This library implements the following algorithms :

RC4
AES (AES-128, AES-192, AES-256)
DES
Triple DES (EDE)
MD2
MD4
MD5
SHA-1
SHA-2 (SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512)

The hash algorithms have been optimized for the mbed and you should get decent performance. However, I did not optimize the ciphers. Also, I did not test extensively these algorithms : it should work but you may find some bugs. Block ciphers support two modes : ECB and CBC.

Warning

If you are using SHA-384 or SHA-512, be aware that it produces large binary files and the compilation (using the online compiler) takes much longer to execute. It may happen that the compiler stops because it timed-out. In this case, just compile again and it should work.

Computing hash

You can compute the hash of some data in two different ways. The first one is the easiest, each hash algorithm has a static method that takes some data and compute the hash from it.

Computing hash using method 1

#include "Crypto.h"
#include "mbed.h"

static const char msg[] = "mbed is great !";

int main()
{
    uint8_t hash[16];
    MD2::computeHash(hash, (uint8_t*)msg, strlen(msg));
    printf("hash: ");
    for(int i = 0; i < 16; ++i)
        printf("%02x", hash[i]);
    printf("\n");
    
    return 0;
}

The second one is slightly slower (around 2-3% slower) but it allows you to compute the hash of some data in several steps (by calling update method). This is the method you should use if you need to compute the hash from a large source and you don't have enough memory to store it in a single buffer.

Computing hash using method 2

#include "Crypto.h"
#include "mbed.h"

static const char msg[] = "mbed is great !";

int main()
{
    uint8_t hash[16];
    MD2 h;
    h.update((uint8_t*)msg, strlen(msg));
    h.finalize(hash);
    printf("hash: ");
    for(int i = 0; i < 16; ++i)
        printf("%02x", hash[i]);
    printf("\n");
    
    return 0;
}