sha3: SHA-3 Cryptographic Hash Algorithms

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SHA-3 Cryptographic Hash Algorithms

Description

Returns a SHA-3 hash of the supplied object or file.

Usage

sha3(x, bits = 256L, convert = TRUE, file)

Arguments

x	object to hash. A character string or raw vector (without attributes) is hashed as is. All other objects are stream hashed using native R serialization.
bits	integer output size of the returned hash. Must be one of 224, 256, 384 or 512.
convert	logical TRUE to convert the hash to its hex representation as a character string, FALSE to return directly as a raw vector, or NA to return as a vector of (32-bit) integers.
file	character file name / path. If specified, x is ignored. The file is stream hashed, and the file can be larger than memory.

Value

A character string, raw or integer vector depending on convert.

R Serialization Stream Hashing

Where this is used, serialization is always version 3 big-endian representation and the headers (containing R version and native encoding information) are skipped to ensure portability across platforms.

As hashing is performed in a streaming fashion, there is no materialization of, or memory allocation for, the serialized object.

References

The SHA-3 Secure Hash Standard was published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2015 at \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("doi:10.6028/NIST.FIPS.202")}.

This implementation is based on one by 'The Mbed TLS Contributors' under the 'Mbed TLS' Trusted Firmware Project at https://www.trustedfirmware.org/projects/mbed-tls.

Examples

# SHA3-256 hash as character string:
sha3("secret base")

# SHA3-256 hash as raw vector:
sha3("secret base", convert = FALSE)

# SHA3-224 hash as character string:
sha3("secret base", bits = 224)

# SHA3-384 hash as character string:
sha3("secret base", bits = 384)

# SHA3-512 hash as character string:
sha3("secret base", bits = 512)

# SHA3-256 hash a file:
file <- tempfile(); cat("secret base", file = file)
sha3(file = file)
unlink(file)

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