crypto-hash-sha512

NAME

crypto-hash-sha512 - produce a SHA512 hash of the input  

SYNOPSIS

crypto-hash-sha512 [-b]  

DESCRIPTION

Reads a complete stream of data from standard input, computes its SHA512 checksum, and prints out the result in hexidecimal.

-b     
output in binary mode

EXIT CODE

Normally, crypto-hash-sha512 exits with 0.

If invalid arguments are given, crypto-hash-sha512 exits with 100.

If an error occurs, crypto-hash-sha512 exits with 111.  

CRYPTOGRAPHY

This program is a simply a wrapper around the crypto_hash_sha512 function provided by NaCl, the Networking and Cryptography library by Daniel J. Bernstein and Tanja Lange. See the official website http://nacl.cr.yp.to/ for details.  

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