On Mar 23, 12:05 pm, Honza Bambas <honzab....@firemni.cz> wrote: > On 3/22/2011 10:29 PM, Crypto User wrote:> Hi , > > I am trying to create APIS which will provide Hashing functionality > > to end user. I am using NSS to provide this on Linux. > > I was trying to find the correct APIs in NSS to provide this > > functionality and I was confused. > > There seem to be different APIs. > > E.g CreateDigestContext(SECOidTag hashAlg) and related APIs in > >https://developer.mozilla.org/en/NSS/Cryptography_functions > > or > > MD5_Begin() and related hash API from > >http://mxr.mozilla.org/security/source/security/nss/lib/freebl/md5.c > > and other hashing alg files. > > Which one should be used ? > > Thanks > > Probably a good example of how to use NSS api is to look at the XPCOM > wrappers > here:http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/security/manager/ssl/sr... > > Just check HASH_* function calls. > > Also this header might tell you what you > need:http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/security/nss/lib/freebl... > > -hb-
But the document on the mozilla website httpp://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/tech-notes/tn5.html talks about using pk11_digest* APIs. Are they uoutdated/not to be used? Should we use freebl library instead? Thanks -A -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
