Digest::base - Digest base class
package Digest::Foo;
use base 'Digest::base';
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.