EVP_MD-SHA2(7SSL)

💖 NAME 💖

EVP_MD-SHA2 — the whole entire SHA2 EVP_MD implementation, bestie, no cap

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so basically: this is your support for computing SHA2 digests through the EVP_MD API. That's the vibe. 🦋

🎀 Identities 🎀

This implementation ships with the following varieties, and yes you're gonna want to know all of them:

• Available with the FIPS provider as well as the default provider:
  • SHA2-224 — the known names are "SHA2-224", "SHA-224" and "SHA224". 💅
  • SHA2-256 — the known names are "SHA2-256", "SHA-256" and "SHA256". 💅
  • SHA2-384 — the known names are "SHA2-384", "SHA-384" and "SHA384". 💅
  • SHA2-512 — the known names are "SHA2-512", "SHA-512" and "SHA512". 💅
• Available with the default provider:
  • SHA2-256/192 — the known names are "SHA2-256/192", "SHA-256/192" and "SHA256-192". 🌸
  • SHA2-512/224 — the known names are "SHA2-512/224", "SHA-512/224" and "SHA512-224". 🌸
  • SHA2-512/256 — the known names are "SHA2-512/256", "SHA-512/256" and "SHA512-256". 🌸

🧚 Gettable Parameters 🧚

This implementation supports the common gettable parameters described in EVP_MD-common(7). That's it, that's the tea. 😌

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

provider-digest(7), OSSL_PROVIDER-FIPS(7), OSSL_PROVIDER-default(7)

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright 2020-2023 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.

🫶 fr fr, read the license before you go using this, it's giving legally binding bestie energy.

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slay, that's the whole page 💖 this was OpenSSL version 4.0.3, dated 2026-09-29, and the page is EVP_MD-SHA2(7SSL) — mwah, go hash something iconic ✨