ceph-csi/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/go-digest/doc.go
Niels de Vos 91774fc936 rebase: vendor dependencies for Vault API
Uses github.com/libopenstorage/secrets to communicate with Vault. This
removes the need for maintaining our own limited Vault APIs.

By adding the new dependency, several other packages got updated in the
process. Unused indirect dependencies have been removed from go.mod.

Signed-off-by: Niels de Vos <ndevos@redhat.com>
2020-11-29 04:03:59 +00:00

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// Copyright 2019, 2020 OCI Contributors
// Copyright 2017 Docker, Inc.
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
// https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.
// Package digest provides a generalized type to opaquely represent message
// digests and their operations within the registry. The Digest type is
// designed to serve as a flexible identifier in a content-addressable system.
// More importantly, it provides tools and wrappers to work with
// hash.Hash-based digests with little effort.
//
// Basics
//
// The format of a digest is simply a string with two parts, dubbed the
// "algorithm" and the "digest", separated by a colon:
//
// <algorithm>:<digest>
//
// An example of a sha256 digest representation follows:
//
// sha256:7173b809ca12ec5dee4506cd86be934c4596dd234ee82c0662eac04a8c2c71dc
//
// The "algorithm" portion defines both the hashing algorithm used to calculate
// the digest and the encoding of the resulting digest, which defaults to "hex"
// if not otherwise specified. Currently, all supported algorithms have their
// digests encoded in hex strings.
//
// In the example above, the string "sha256" is the algorithm and the hex bytes
// are the "digest".
//
// Because the Digest type is simply a string, once a valid Digest is
// obtained, comparisons are cheap, quick and simple to express with the
// standard equality operator.
//
// Verification
//
// The main benefit of using the Digest type is simple verification against a
// given digest. The Verifier interface, modeled after the stdlib hash.Hash
// interface, provides a common write sink for digest verification. After
// writing is complete, calling the Verifier.Verified method will indicate
// whether or not the stream of bytes matches the target digest.
//
// Missing Features
//
// In addition to the above, we intend to add the following features to this
// package:
//
// 1. A Digester type that supports write sink digest calculation.
//
// 2. Suspend and resume of ongoing digest calculations to support efficient digest verification in the registry.
//
package digest