NAME¶
Digest::base - Digest base class
SYNOPSIS¶
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.
SEE ALSO¶
Digest