digest-init

Arguments: name

You may need to evaluate (require :digest) to load the digest code before calling this function.

Returns an initialized context for the hashing specified by name, used by the other digest functions.

name can be one of the symbols md2, md4, md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384 sha512, and rmd160, specifying the type of hashing.

See MD5, SHA*, HMAC, RC4, and other message digest support in miscellaneous.htm.

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