[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: hs-cryptohash 0.4

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

Vincent Hanquez <tab at snarc.org> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 12:55:03PM +1000, Ivan Miljenovic wrote:
>> On 1 July 2010 17:25, Vincent Hanquez <tab at snarc.org> wrote:
>> > The main reason for this library is the lack of incremental api exposed by
>> > current digest libraries, and filling the void about some missing digest
>> > algorithms; Also the speed comes as a nice bonus.
>> 
>> Can you explain what you mean by "incremental API"?
>
> The incremental API is the init/update/finalize functions where you can call
> update as many time as you need, instead of a single function "hash" where you
> need to hash all your data in one-go.
>
> It's necessary in my case since i receive chunks of data to be hashed from the
> network, and I don't want to carry a buffer of data (with potential security
> issues), until i can hash everything.
>
> The few existing packages that exposes the incremental API, usually do it
> in the IO monad; cryptohash do it purely, creating a new context as it get updated.
> (this has a cost but remains fast globally with the C implementation)
>
> i.e.
> 	update : ctx -> bytestring -> IO ()
> becomes:
> 	update : ctx -> bytestring -> ctx

So you're using explicit state parsing?  Any particular reason for not
using the State monad or something like that?

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