On 2/5/03 9:01 AM, "Wei Dai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Look up Sink in the online API reference, then you'll see all of the
> classes that inherit from Sink, such as StringSink or ArraySink.
Thanks, I thought I was missing something...
Cheers
Matt Smith
> On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 01:33:24PM +1000, Matthew Smith wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I need to hash some data (char *) and would like to get the hash back as a
>> char *, so far I've come up with (based on the example with the source):
>>
>> void md5Data(const char *data)
>> {
>> MD5 md5;
>> HashFilter md5Filter(md5);
>> auto_ptr<ChannelSwitch> channelSwitch(new ChannelSwitch);
>> channelSwitch->AddDefaultRoute(md5Filter);
>> StringSource(data, true, channelSwitch.release());
>>
>> HexEncoder encoder(new FileSink(cout), false);
>> cout << "\nMD5: ";
>> md5Filter.TransferTo(encoder);
>> cout << "\n";
>> }
>>
>> Now, my (limited) understanding of crypto++ is this:
>>
>> To get the data as a string (rather then stout), I would need to implement a
>> class that inherits from Sink, then get the data out of it myself??
>>
>> I would think that this sort of thing is quite common, is there a better way
>> of doing it, or something in the lib I am missing???
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Matt Smith
>
