theirs a cryptov1 library inside boost vault. http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=crypto_v01.zip&directory=& On Nov 7, 2007 6:10 PM, Bill Lear wrote:

On Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 23:45:13 (+0000) Daniel James writes:

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Mark Wyszomierski wrote:

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Hi,

I'm trying to hash a string, something like:

1) Take string (password) from user 2) Hash it 3) Store to disk

I see boost has some hashing features, but am not quite sure how they work. Do they do this type of thing? I'm looking for some really simple hashing, this is just for a simple application.

No, they're not suitable. Boost.Hash is designed to be used with in memory hash tables.

You probably need a cryptographic hash, such as MD5 or one of the SHA hash functions. I think the Adobe Source Libraries include these. And there has also been talk of implementations for boost in the past (check the vault and/or archives) but I don't think anything has been put forward for review.

This might be of use... may need some rejiggering.

// .hh file #include <vector> #include <string> #include <iosfwd> #include

// Generates a SHA1 checksum for the given stream std::vector<unsigned char> sha1sum(std::istream&);

// Generates a SHA1 checksum for the given file std::vector<unsigned char> sha1sum(const std::string&);

// converts the sha1sum vector to a hexadecimal string std::string sha1_to_string(const std::vector<unsigned char>&);

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------// // Provides, inter alia, semantics to support intermediate calculation of // sha1 checksums. This is useful, for example, in graph traversal, during // which you may want to know the sha1 sum of the current path. The // underlying implementation does not allow "un-digesting" of content, // so testing to see if a current node in a path creates a sha1 that // has been seen before *without modifying the current path's sha1* // requires a copy of the Sum object to a temporary object, // the addition of the node, and test to see if the new sha1 has been // seen. //---------------------------------------------------------------------------// class Sum { public: Sum(); ~Sum();

Sum(const Sum&); Sum& operator = (const Sum&);

// Add new content void digest(const char*, size_t); void digest(const std::string&);

// Get sha1 value; digest() may be called again std::string sha1();

private: const EVP_MD* md; EVP_MD_CTX mdctx; };

// .cc file #include <fstream> #include

using namespace std;

vector<unsigned char> sha1sum(istream& is) { const EVP_MD* md = EVP_sha1();

Insist(md, "Unable to get sha1 message digest structure");

OpenSSL_add_all_digests();

EVP_MD_CTX mdctx; EVP_MD_CTX_init(&mdctx); EVP_DigestInit_ex(&mdctx, md, NULL);

const size_t buffer_length = 1024 * 1024; static char buffer[buffer_length]; while (true) { is.read(buffer, buffer_length); if (!is.gcount()) { break; } EVP_DigestUpdate(&mdctx, buffer, static_cast<unsigned int>(is.gcount())); }

unsigned char md_value[EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE]; unsigned int md_len = 0; EVP_DigestFinal_ex(&mdctx, md_value, &md_len);

EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup(&mdctx);

return vector<unsigned char>(md_value, md_value + md_len); }

vector<unsigned char> sha1sum(const string& filename) { ifstream is(filename.c_str());

Insist(is.good(), "Unable to open " + filename + " for reading." );

return sha1sum(is); }

string sha1_to_string(const vector<unsigned char>& v) { string sha1;

for (vector<unsigned char>::const_iterator i = v.begin(); i != v.end(); ++i) { char b[8]; sprintf(b, "%02x", *i); sha1 += b; }

return sha1; }

Sum::Sum() : md(EVP_sha1()) { Insist(md, "Unable to get sha1 message digest structure");

OpenSSL_add_all_digests();

EVP_MD_CTX_init(&mdctx); EVP_DigestInit_ex(&mdctx, md, NULL); }

Sum::~Sum() { EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup(&mdctx); }

Sum::Sum(const Sum& other) : md(EVP_sha1()) { Insist(md, "Unable to get sha1 message digest structure");

OpenSSL_add_all_digests();

EVP_MD_CTX_init(&mdctx); EVP_DigestInit_ex(&mdctx, md, NULL);

EVP_MD_CTX_copy_ex(&mdctx, &other.mdctx); }

Sum& Sum::operator = (const Sum& other) { if (this != &other) { EVP_MD_CTX_copy_ex(&mdctx, &other.mdctx); } return *this; }

void Sum::digest(const char* buffer, size_t length) { EVP_DigestUpdate(&mdctx, buffer, static_cast<unsigned int>(length)); }

void Sum::digest(const string& buffer) { EVP_DigestUpdate(&mdctx, buffer.c_str(), static_cast<unsigned int>(buffer.size())); }

string Sum::sha1() { EVP_MD_CTX mdctx_tmp; EVP_MD_CTX_copy(&mdctx_tmp, &mdctx);

unsigned char md_value[EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE]; unsigned int md_len = 0; EVP_DigestFinal_ex(&mdctx_tmp, md_value, &md_len);

EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup(&mdctx_tmp);

vector<unsigned char> v(md_value, md_value + md_len);

return sha1_to_string(v); }

Bill

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Hi, On Nov 8, 2007 8:50 AM, Kirit Sælensminde wrote:

Mark Wyszomierski wrote:

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Hi,

I'm trying to hash a string, something like:

1) Take string (password) from user 2) Hash it 3) Store to disk

I see boost has some hashing features, but am not quite sure how they work. Do they do this type of thing? I'm looking for some really simple hashing, this is just for a simple application.

There is a Boost.Crypto in the vault - http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2007/09/127248.php

We use OpenSSL for this on Windows which I'm pretty sure also works on Unix too.

Don't forget to salt the password before hashing :)

If a simple one way hashing is what you need (just to convert a string to a number with least collisions), consider the hashing function in Glib which is also used in XEmacs. Look for "hash_string" under: http://cvs.xemacs.org/viewcvs.cgi/XEmacs/xemacs/src/symbols.c?rev=1.45.2.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup I have personally used it in developing a parser/compiler for a DMIS language (CNC type machines) build a syntax tree. with best regards, dhruva -- Dhruva Krishnamurthy Contents reflect my personal views only!