quickxorhash

Documentation

Overview

Package quickxorhash provides the quickXorHash algorithm which is a quick, simple non-cryptographic hash algorithm that works by XORing the bytes in a circular-shifting fashion.

It is used by Microsoft Onedrive for Business to hash data.

See: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/code-snippets/quickxorhash

Index

• Constants
• func New() hash.Hash
• func Sum(data []byte) [Size]byte

Constants

const (
	// BlockSize is the preferred size for hashing
	BlockSize = 64
	// Size of the output checksum
	Size = 20
)

Functions

func New

func New() hash.Hash

New returns a new hash.Hash computing the quickXorHash checksum.

func Sum

func Sum(data []byte) [Size]byte

Sum returns the quickXorHash checksum of the data.