53 lines
2.1 KiB
Go
53 lines
2.1 KiB
Go
// Package digest provides a generalized type to opaquely represent message
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// digests and their operations within the registry. The Digest type is
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// designed to serve as a flexible identifier in a content-addressable system.
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// More importantly, it provides tools and wrappers to work with tarsums and
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// hash.Hash-based digests with little effort.
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//
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// Basics
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//
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// The format of a digest is simply a string with two parts, dubbed the
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// "algorithm" and the "digest", separated by a colon:
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//
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// <algorithm>:<digest>
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//
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// An example of a sha256 digest representation follows:
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//
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// sha256:7173b809ca12ec5dee4506cd86be934c4596dd234ee82c0662eac04a8c2c71dc
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//
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// In this case, the string "sha256" is the algorithm and the hex bytes are
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// the "digest". A tarsum example will be more illustrative of the use case
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// involved in the registry:
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//
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// tarsum+sha256:e58fcf7418d4390dec8e8fb69d88c06ec07039d651fedd3aa72af9972e7d046b
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//
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// For this, we consider the algorithm to be "tarsum+sha256". Prudent
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// applications will favor the ParseDigest function to verify the format over
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// using simple type casts. However, a normal string can be cast as a digest
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// with a simple type conversion:
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//
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// Digest("tarsum+sha256:e58fcf7418d4390dec8e8fb69d88c06ec07039d651fedd3aa72af9972e7d046b")
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//
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// Because the Digest type is simply a string, once a valid Digest is
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// obtained, comparisons are cheap, quick and simple to express with the
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// standard equality operator.
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//
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// Verification
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//
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// The main benefit of using the Digest type is simple verification against a
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// given digest. The Verifier interface, modeled after the stdlib hash.Hash
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// interface, provides a common write sink for digest verification. After
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// writing is complete, calling the Verifier.Verified method will indicate
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// whether or not the stream of bytes matches the target digest.
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//
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// Missing Features
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//
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// In addition to the above, we intend to add the following features to this
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// package:
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//
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// 1. A Digester type that supports write sink digest calculation.
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//
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// 2. Suspend and resume of ongoing digest calculations to support efficient digest verification in the registry.
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//
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package digest
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