digest provides hash function summaries for GNU R objects. The md5, sha-1, sha-256 and crc32 hash functions are available. The md5 algorithm by Ron Rivest is specified in RFC 1321, the SHA-1 and SHA-256 algorithm is specified in FIPS-180-1 and FIPS-180-2, respectively, and the crc32 algorithm is described in here. For md5, sha-1 and sha-256, this packages uses small standalone C implementations that were provided by by Christophe Devine. For crc32, code from the zlib library is used. For sha-512, a routine by Aaron Gifford is used. Please note that this package is not meant to be deployed for cryptographic purposes for which more comprehensive (and widely tested) libraries such as OpenSSL should be used.
Binary packages can be installed with the high-level tool pkgin (which can be installed with pkg_add) or pkg_add(1) (installed by default). The NetBSD packages collection is also designed to permit easy installation from source.
The pkg_admin audit command locates any installed package which has been mentioned in security advisories as having vulnerabilities.
Please note the vulnerabilities database might not be fully accurate, and not every bug is exploitable with every configuration.
Problem reports, updates or suggestions for this package should be reported with send-pr.