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CC_crypto(3cc)                                      LOCAL                                     CC_crypto(3cc)

NAME
     Common Crypto -- libSystem digest library

DESCRIPTION
     The libSystem Common Crypto library implements a wide range of cryptographic algorithms used in various
     Internet standards. The services provided by this library are used by the CDSA implementations of SSL,
     TLS and S/MIME.

OVERVIEW
     libSystem contains the Common Crypto collection of algorithms. Digest and encryption algorithms con-tained contained
     tained in this library are optimized for speed.  The algorithms have been collected from various
     sources and chosen for their performance characteristics.  Since libSystem is linked into all executa-bles executables
     bles it is preferable for applications to use these functions rather than implementing their own ver-sions. versions.
     sions.

NOTES
     To use the digest functions with existing code which uses the corresponding openssl functions, #define
     the symbol COMMON_DIGEST_FOR_OPENSSL in your client code (BEFORE including
     <CommonCrypto/CommonDigest.h> ).

     You can *NOT* mix and match functions operating on a given data type from the two implementations;
     i.e., if you do a CC_MD5_Init() on a CC_MD5_CTX object, do not assume that you can do an openssl-style
     MD5_Update() on that same context.

     The interfaces to the encryption and HMAC algorithms have a calling interface that is different from
     that provided by OpenSSL.

SEE ALSO
     CC_MD5(3cc), CC_SHA(3cc), CCHmac(3cc), CCCryptor(3cc)

BSD                                             April 5, 2007                                            BSD