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| A practical incremental and one-pass, pure API to the SHA-256 hash algorithm | A practical incremental and one-pass, pure API to the SHA-256 hash algorithm | ||||
| (including HMAC support) with performance close to the fastest implementations | (including HMAC support) with performance close to the fastest implementations | ||||
| available in other languages. | available in other languages. | ||||
| The implementation is made in C with a haskell FFI wrapper that hides the C | The implementation is made in C with a haskell FFI wrapper that hides the C | ||||
| implementation. | implementation. | ||||
| NOTE: This package has been forked off cryptohash-0.11.7 because the cryptohash | NOTE: This package has been forked off cryptohash-0.11.7 because the cryptohash | ||||
| package has been deprecated and so this package continues to satisfy the need for | package has been deprecated and so this package continues to satisfy the need for | ||||
| a lightweight package providing the SHA256 hash algorithm without any dependencies | a lightweight package providing the SHA256 hash algorithm without any dependencies | ||||
| on packages other than base and bytestring. | on packages other than base and bytestring. | ||||
| Consequently, this package can be used as a drop-in replacement for cryptohash's | Consequently, this package can be used as a drop-in replacement for cryptohash's | ||||
| Crypto.Hash.SHA256 module, though with a clearly smaller footprint. | Crypto.Hash.SHA256 module, though with a clearly smaller footprint. | ||||
| WWW: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cryptohash-sha256 | WWW: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cryptohash-sha256 | ||||
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