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MD4(3) FreeBSD Library Functions Manual MD4(3)
NAME MD4Init, MD4Update, MD4Pad, MD4Final, MD4End, MD4File, MD4FileChunk, MD4Data - calculate the RSA Data Security, Inc., ``MD4'' message digest
LIBRARY Message Digest (MD4, MD5, etc.) Support Library (libmd, -lmd)
SYNOPSIS #include <sys/types.h> #include <md4.h>
void MD4Init(MD4_CTX *context);
void MD4Update(MD4_CTX *context, const void *data, unsigned int len);
void MD4Pad(MD4_CTX *context);
void MD4Final(unsigned char digest[16], MD4_CTX *context);
char * MD4End(MD4_CTX *context, char *buf);
char * MD4File(const char *filename, char *buf);
char * MD4FileChunk(const char *filename, char *buf, off_t offset, off_t length);
char * MD4Data(const void *data, unsigned int len, char *buf);
DESCRIPTION The MD4 functions calculate a 128-bit cryptographic checksum (digest) for any number of input bytes. A cryptographic checksum is a one-way hash- function, that is, you cannot find (except by exhaustive search) the input corresponding to a particular output. This net result is a "fingerprint" of the input-data, which does not disclose the actual input.
MD4 is the fastest and MD5 is somewhat slower. MD4 has now been broken; it should only be used where necessary for backward compatibility. MD5 has not yet (1999-02-11) been broken, but sufficient attacks have been made that its security is in some doubt. The attacks on both MD4 and MD5 are both in the nature of finding "collisions" - that is, multiple inputs which hash to the same value; it is still unlikely for an attacker to be able to determine the exact original input given a hash value.
The MD4Init(), MD4Update(), and MD4Final() functions are the core functions. Allocate an MD4_CTX, initialize it with MD4Init(), run over the data with MD4Update(), and finally extract the result using MD4Final(), which will also erase the MD4_CTX.
The MD4File() function calculates the digest of a file, and uses MD4End() to return the result. If the file cannot be opened, a null pointer is returned. The MD4FileChunk() function is similar to MD4File(), but it only calculates the digest over a byte-range of the file specified, starting at offset and spanning length bytes. If the length parameter is specified as 0, or more than the length of the remaining part of the file, MD4FileChunk() calculates the digest from offset to the end of file. The MD4Data() function calculates the digest of a chunk of data in memory, and uses MD4End() to return the result.
When using MD4End(), MD4File(), or MD4Data(), the buf argument can be a null pointer, in which case the returned string is allocated with malloc(3) and subsequently must be explicitly deallocated using free(3) after use. If the buf argument is non-null it must point to at least 33 characters of buffer space.
ERRORS The MD4End() function called with a null buf argument may fail and return NULL if:
[ENOMEM] Insufficient storage space is available.
The MD4File() and MD4FileChunk() may return NULL when underlying open(2), fstat(2), lseek(2), or MD4End(3) fail.
SEE ALSO md4(3), md5(3), ripemd(3), sha(3), sha256(3), sha512(3), skein(3)
R. Rivest, The MD4 Message-Digest Algorithm, RFC 1186.
R. Rivest, The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, RFC 1321.
H. Dobbertin, "Alf Swindles Ann", CryptoBytes, 1(3):5, 1995.
MJ. B. Robshaw, "On Recent Results for MD2, MD4 and MD5", RSA Laboratories Bulletin, 4, November 12, 1996.
HISTORY These functions appeared in FreeBSD 2.0.
AUTHORS The original MD4 routines were developed by RSA Data Security, Inc., and published in the above references. This code is derived directly from these implementations by Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>.
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BUGS The MD5 algorithm has been proven to be vulnerable to practical collision attacks and should not be relied upon to produce unique outputs, nor should they be used as part of a cryptographic signature scheme. Copyright (C) 1991-2, RSA Data Security, Inc. Created 1991. All rights reserved.
License to copy and use this software is granted provided that it is identified as the "RSA Data Security, Inc. MD4 Message-Digest Algorithm" in all material mentioning or referencing this software or this function. License is also granted to make and use derivative works provided that such works are identified as "derived from the RSA Data Security, Inc.
These notices must be retained in any copies of any part of this documentation and/or software.
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