Introduction

This module implements a common interface to many different secure hash and message digest algorithms. Included are the FIPS secure hash algorithms SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, and SHA512 (defined in FIPS 180-2) as well as RSA’s MD5 algorithm (defined in Internet RFC 1321).

SHA1 and MD5 algorithms are not supported by the CircuitPython module.

This library is based on the work performed in the micropython-lib hashlib module by Paul Sokolovsky

Dependencies

This driver depends on:

• Adafruit CircuitPython

Please ensure all dependencies are available on the CircuitPython filesystem. This is easily achieved by downloading the Adafruit library and driver bundle.

Installing from PyPI

Note

This library is not available on PyPI yet. Install documentation is included as a standard element. Stay tuned for PyPI availability!

On supported GNU/Linux systems like the Raspberry Pi, you can install the driver locally from PyPI. To install for current user:

pip3 install adafruit-circuitpython-hashlib

To install system-wide (this may be required in some cases):

sudo pip3 install adafruit-circuitpython-hashlib

To install in a virtual environment in your current project:

mkdir project-name && cd project-name
python3 -m venv .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip3 install adafruit-circuitpython-hashlib

Usage Example

import adafruit_hashlib as hashlib
m = hashlib.sha256()
m.update(b"CircuitPython")
print("Msg Hex Digest: {}\nMsg Digest Size: {}\nMsg Block Size: {}".format(
        m.hexdigest(), m.digest_size, m.block_size))

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read our Code of Conduct before contributing to help this project stay welcoming.

Sphinx documentation

Sphinx is used to build the documentation based on rST files and comments in the code. First, install dependencies (feel free to reuse the virtual environment from above):

python3 -m venv .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip install Sphinx sphinx-rtd-theme

Now, once you have the virtual environment activated:

cd docs
sphinx-build -E -W -b html . _build/html

This will output the documentation to docs/_build/html. Open the index.html in your browser to view them. It will also (due to -W) error out on any warning like Travis will. This is a good way to locally verify it will pass.