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moby--moby/libnetwork/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/go-digest/doc.go
Sebastiaan van Stijn f864421ead bump docker/docker to master and unfork dependencies
This patch updates all dependencies to match what is
used in moby/moby. Making the dependencies match
what is used in that repository makes sure we test
with the same version as libnetwork is later built
with in moby.

This also gets rid of some temporary forks that were
needed during the migration of Sirupsen/logrus to
sirupsen/logrus.

Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
2017-10-25 17:26:25 +02:00

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// 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
//
// In this case, 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