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wookietreiber committed Aug 26, 2022
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Expand Up @@ -175,20 +175,38 @@ hash_password::<Sha512>("my_password", "abcd", &mut buf2);
If you want to use hash functions with trait objects, you can use the [`DynDigest`] trait:

```rust
use sha2::{Sha256, Sha512, digest::DynDigest};
use digest::DynDigest;

fn dyn_hash(hasher: &mut dyn DynDigest, data: &[u8]) -> Box<[u8]> {
// Dynamic hash function
fn use_hasher(hasher: &mut dyn DynDigest, data: &[u8]) -> Box<[u8]> {
hasher.update(data);
hasher.finalize_reset()
}

let mut sha256_hasher = Sha256::default();
let mut sha512_hasher = Sha512::default();
// You can use something like this when parsing user input, CLI arguments, etc.
// DynDigest needs to be boxed here, since function return should be sized.
fn select_hasher(s: &str) -> Box<dyn DynDigest> {
match s {
"md5" => Box::new(md5::Md5::default()),
"sha1" => Box::new(sha1::Sha1::default()),
"sha224" => Box::new(sha2::Sha224::default()),
"sha256" => Box::new(sha2::Sha256::default()),
"sha384" => Box::new(sha2::Sha384::default()),
"sha512" => Box::new(sha2::Sha512::default()),
_ => unimplemented!("unsupported digest: {}", s),
}
}

let mut hasher1 = select_hasher("md5");
let mut hasher2 = select_hasher("sha512");

// the `&mut *hasher` is to DerefMut the value out of the Box
// this is equivalent to `DerefMut::deref_mut(&mut hasher)`

let hash1 = dyn_hash(&mut sha256_hasher, b"foo");
let hash2 = dyn_hash(&mut sha256_hasher, b"bar");
let hash3 = dyn_hash(&mut sha512_hasher, b"foo");
let hash4 = dyn_hash(&mut sha512_hasher, b"bar");
// can be reused due to `finalize_reset()`
let hash1_1 = use_hasher(&mut *hasher1, b"foo");
let hash1_2 = use_hasher(&mut *hasher1, b"bar");
let hash2_1 = use_hasher(&mut *hasher2, b"foo");
```

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