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sha3sum: Print or Check SHA-3 Checksums

NAME

sha3sum - Print or Check SHA-3 Checksums

SYNOPSIS

 Usage: sha3sum [OPTION]... [FILE]...
 Print or check SHA-3 checksums.
 With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

   -a, --algorithm   224 (default), 256, 384, 512, 128000, 256000
   -b, --binary      read in binary mode
   -c, --check       read SHA-3 sums from the FILEs and check them
   -t, --text        read in text mode (default)
   -U, --UNIVERSAL   read in Universal Newlines mode
                         produces same digest on Windows/Unix/Mac
   -0, --01          read in BITS mode
                         ASCII '0' interpreted as 0-bit,
                         ASCII '1' interpreted as 1-bit,
                         all other characters ignored
   -p, --portable    read in portable mode (to be deprecated)

 The following two options are useful only when verifying checksums:
   -s, --status      don't output anything, status code shows success
   -w, --warn        warn about improperly formatted checksum lines

   -h, --help        display this help and exit
   -v, --version     output version information and exit

 The sums are computed as described in the FIPS 202 SHA-3 submission.
 When checking, the input should be a former output of this program.
 The default mode is to print a line with checksum, a character
 indicating type (`*' for binary, ` ' for text, `U' for UNIVERSAL,
 `^' for BITS, `?' for portable), and name for each FILE.

 Report sha3sum bugs to mshelor [at] cpan.org

DESCRIPTION

Running sha3sum is often the quickest way to compute SHA-3 message digests. The user simply feeds data to the script through files or standard input, and then collects the results from standard output.

The following command shows how to compute digests for typical inputs such as the NIST test vector ``abc'':

        perl -e "print qq(abc)" | sha3sum

Or, if you want to use SHA3-256 instead of the default SHA3-224, simply say:

        perl -e "print qq(abc)" | sha3sum -a 256

Unlike many other digest computation programs, sha3sum implements the full SHA-3 standard by allowing partial-byte inputs, which can be recognized through the BITS option (-0). The following example computes the SHA3-384 digest of the 7-bit message 0001100:

        perl -e "print qq(0001100)" | sha3sum -0 -a 384

AUTHOR

Copyright (c) 2012-2015 Mark Shelor <mshelor [at] cpan.org>.