    <refentry id="refhash">

      <refmeta>
	<refentrytitle>ne_strhash</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
      </refmeta>

      <refnamediv>
	<refname id="ne_strhash">ne_strhash</refname>
	<refname id="ne_vstrhash">ne_vstrhash</refname>
	<refpurpose>string hash interface</refpurpose>
      </refnamediv>
      
      <refsynopsisdiv>

	<funcsynopsis>
          <funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;ne_string.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>

	  <funcprototype>
	    <funcdef>char *<function>ne_strhash</function></funcdef>
	    <paramdef>unsigned int <parameter>flags</parameter></paramdef>
	    <paramdef><parameter>...</parameter></paramdef>
	  </funcprototype>

	  <funcprototype>
	    <funcdef>char *<function>ne_vstrhash</function></funcdef>
	    <paramdef>unsigned int <parameter>flags</parameter></paramdef>
	    <paramdef>va_list <parameter>ap</parameter></paramdef>
	  </funcprototype>
        </funcsynopsis>

      </refsynopsisdiv>

      <refsect1>
	<title>Description</title>

	<para>The <function>ne_strhash</function> and
	<function>ne_vstrhash</function> functions can be used to
	create hashes.  The varargs argument list must be <type>const
	char *</type> strings followed by a &null; terminator.  The
	<parameter>flags</parameter> argument must select exactly one
	hash algorithm from the list below, which can be optionally
	bitwise-ORed with one of the formatting option.  The hash is
	calculated for the concatenation of the argument list, without
	separators.</para>

        <refsect2>
          <title>Hash algorithms</title>
        
        <para>The following hash algorithms are available:
	<variablelist>
	  <varlistentry>
            <term><constant>NE_HASH_MD5</constant></term>
	    <listitem><simpara>MD5</simpara></listitem>
	  </varlistentry>
	  <varlistentry>
            <term><constant>NE_HASH_SHA256</constant></term>
	    <listitem><simpara>SHA-256 (SHA-2)</simpara></listitem>
	  </varlistentry>
	  <varlistentry>
            <term><constant>NE_HASH_SHA512</constant></term>
	    <listitem><simpara>SHA-512 (SHA-2)</simpara></listitem>
	  </varlistentry>
	  <varlistentry>
            <term><constant>NE_HASH_SHA256_256</constant></term>
	    <listitem><simpara>SHA-512/256 (SHA-2)</simpara></listitem>
	  </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>

        </para></refsect2>
        
        <refsect2>
          <title>Formatting options</title>
          
          <para>By default, the hash is returned as a hexadecimal
          lower-case character string. The following formatting
          options are available:
        
	<variablelist>
	  <varlistentry>
            <term><constant>NE_HASH_COLON</constant></term>
	    <listitem><simpara>colon-separated hex pairs, e.g. <literal>"aa:11:22..."</literal> </simpara></listitem>
	  </varlistentry>
	  <varlistentry>
            <term><constant>NE_HASH_SPACE</constant></term>
	    <listitem><simpara>space-separated hex pairs, e.g. <literal>"aa 11 22..."</literal></simpara></listitem>
	  </varlistentry>
          </variablelist></para>

        </refsect2>
        
      </refsect1>

      <refsect1>
	<title>Return value</title>

        <para>The return value is the ASCII hexadecimal representation
        of the hash as a malloc-allocated, NUL-terminated string, or
        &null; if the hash cannot be created.  The string length is
        determined by the hash algorithm (and formatting options
        used).  Support for hash algorithms is specific to the SSL
        toolkit with which &neon; is compiled.  Some systems will
        further restrict hash availability at runtime, e.g. due to
        FIPS mode.</para>

      </refsect1>

    </refentry>
