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package org.apache.sshd.common.digest;

/**
 * Interface used to compute digests, based on algorithms such as MD5 or SHA1. The digest implementation are compared
 * first by the algorithm name (case <U>insensitive</U> and second according to the block size
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:dev@mina.apache.org">Apache MINA SSHD Project</a>
 */
public interface Digest extends DigestInformation, Comparable<Digest> {
    void init() throws Exception;

    void update(byte[] data) throws Exception;

    void update(byte[] data, int start, int len) throws Exception;

    byte[] digest() throws Exception;
}
