snefru(1)

NAME
snefru - the Xerox Secure Hash Function, version 2.5a

SYNTAX
snefru

DESCRIPTION
snefru calculates a cryptographically strong one-way hash of its input. snefru conforms to the summain interface. See summain(1) for a description of snefru's options.

COMPATIBILITY
This is a clone of Ralph Merkle's snefru program. If you find two inputs which produce the same output, please verify first that Merkle's version produces the same output, and then contact him at merkle@parc.xerox.com.

VERSION
snefru 1.2, 7 July 1993.

AUTHOR
Most of the work is done in the snefrufile and snefru512 libraries, which are derived from the Xerox Secure Hash Function as implemented by Merkle. Wrapper code placed into the public domain by Daniel J. Bernstein.

SEE ALSO
summain(1), snefrufile(3), snefru512(3)