shake256_init(9)

🌸 shake256_init(9) 🌸

okay so bestie, we're in the Kernel API Manual today and the page is literally called shake256_init(9) — yes that's the whole title, she's iconic like that 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

shake256_init — the girl who initializes a context for SHAKE256 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void shake256_init (struct shake_ctx *ctx );

that's it. that's the whole function signature. no cap, she's simple and she knows it ✨

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• ctx — the context you're initializing, bestie. hand it over and let her cook 🫶

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so like, this is the moment where a brand-new SHAKE256 extendable-output function (XOF) computation begins 🧚✨ it's giving opening night, it's giving first day of school, it's giving the start of the whole thing. you call this, and the XOF journey has officially begun 🔥

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⭐ CONTEXT ⭐

Any context. literally any. she does not gatekeep, she does not discriminate, she is for everyone 👑💜

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

go read these next, they're all in the group chat:

• Kernel file ./include/crypto/sha3.h struct sha3_ctx(9)
• sha3_zeroize_ctx(9)
• struct shake_ctx(9)
• shake_zeroize_ctx(9)
• sha3_224_init(9)
• sha3_256_init(9)
• sha3_384_init(9)
• sha3_512_init(9)
• sha3_update(9)
• sha3_final(9)
• shake128_init(9)
• shake_update(9)
• shake_squeeze(9)
• sha3_224(9)
• sha3_256(9)
• sha3_384(9)
• sha3_512(9)
• shake128(9)
• shake256(9)

like, the whole friend group fr fr 🌸

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ok that's the page bestie, go hydrate and go call shake256_init on something 💖

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and finally, the sign-off: this cutie lives in ./include/crypto, her version is October 2026, and her name is of course shake256_init(9) 🎀✨ slay, bye 💅