About

This crate provides Rust bindings for lonesha256, making it easy to use this lightweight SHA256 implementation in your Rust projects.

Installation

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
lonesha256 = "1.0"

or run this command in your terminal:

cargo add lonesha256

Usage

use lonesha256::lonesha256;

fn main() {
    let input = b"Hello, world!";
    let mut hash = [0u8; 32];
    
    lonesha256(&mut hash, input).expect("Failed to compute hash");
    
    println!("Hash: {}", 
        hash.iter()
            .map(|b| format!("{:02x}", b))
            .collect::<String>());
}

Documentation

Library documentation can be found here

Features

• Lightweight SHA256 implementation
• No external dependencies
• Safe Rust wrapper around C code
• Comprehensive test suite
• Multiple usage examples

Building from Source

1. Install clang, as said here
2. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/ankddev/lonesha256
cd lonesha256

3. Build:

cargo build --release

Examples

Run the included examples:

cargo run --example sample       # Basic usage
cargo run --example file_hash   # File hashing
cargo run --example streaming   # Process data in chunks
cargo run --example hex_output # Different output formats
cargo run --example benchmark  # Performance testing

Testing

Run the test suite:

cargo test

Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Author

ANKDDEV

Acknowledgments

• lonesha256 - Original C implementation by BareRose