On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 05:06:20PM +0530, Srinivas Cheruku wrote:
> I am looking into the shatest.c file since i want to make use of sha-1
> message digest.
>
> In this file openssl-0.9.6d/crypto/sha/shatest.c,
>
> 141 for (i=0; i<1000; i++)
> 142 SHA_Update(&c,buf,1000);
> 143 SHA_Final(md,&c);
>
> For chunks of data we can call the SHA_Update() with those of chunks of data
> separately.
> for eg: if there are two buffers buf1 and buf2, you should call the update
> function twice.
>
> But here the SHA_Update is called 1000 times with the same buffer. Is it
> right?
Yes. It is done to test the algorithm. Actually 1000000 bytes are processed
by adding the same 1000 bytes (all being `a` anyway) 1000 times.
Best regards,
Lutz
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