digest::base(3pm)
NAME
Digest::base - Digest base class
SYNOPSIS
package Digest::Foo; use base 'Digest::base';
DESCRIPTION
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.
SEE ALSO
- Digest