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20 lines
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# SHAmwow
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Sometimes you just want to understand how an algorithm works, so you implement it yourself.
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The sha2 function in shamwow.rb implements the SHA-256 hashing function in Ruby. shamwow_test.rb contains a few sanity tests for the right-rotate function and for SHA2 itself, testing against the output of the `Digest::SHA2.hexdigest` method in the Ruby standard library.
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It should go without saying that this was just for fun, and you should never, ever roll-your-own cryptography primatives for any reasonable purpose!
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This was fun.
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## Sources
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* the actual spec: <http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.180-4.pdf>
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* wikipedia's pseudocode breakdown: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2#Pseudocode>
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* a JS implementation that helped as I was debugging some boneheaded mistakes: <http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/sha256.html>
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## Obligatory
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/F3lrhPeK6gU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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