NAME
Digest::base - Digest base class
SYNPOSIS
package Digest::Foo; use base 'Digest::base';
DESCRIPTION
The Digest::base class provide implementations of the methods
addfile
and add_bits
in terms of add
, and of the methods
hexdigest
and b64digest
in terms of digest
.
Digest implementations might want to inherit from this class to get this implementations of the alternative add and digest methods. A minimal subclass needs to implement the following methods by itself:
new
clone
add
digest
The arguments and expected behaviour of these methods are described in Digest.
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