NAME

       nettle-hash - compute message digests

SYNOPSIS

       nettle-hash -a ALGORITHM [OPTIONS] [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual page documents briefly the nettle-hash command.  This manual page was written for the Debian
       GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does  not  have  a  manual  page.   Instead,  it  has
       documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.

       nettle-hash  is  a  program  that  computes  various  message  digests.  The output is different from the
       familiar md5sum and sha*sum family. For each file, the file name and a colon  is  printed  first,  unless
       input  is  read from standard input, in which case nothing is printed. Then the hash is printed in chunks
       of 64 bits (16 hexadecimal digits) followed by the name of the algorithm. In raw (binary) mode, the  hash
       is not split in chunks and is not followed by a newline.

OPTIONS

       This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').
       A summary of options is included below.  For a complete description, see the Info files.

       -a, --algorithm=algorithm
              Compute hash using algorithm.

       -l, --length=length
              Truncate digests at length octets. It is an error to specify a  length  greater  than  the  normal
              length of the selected digest.

       --raw  Produce raw binary output.

       --list List supported hash algorithms.

       --help Show summary of options.

       -V, --version
              Show version of program.

SEE ALSO

       md5sum(1), sha1sum(1), etc.

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was  originally  written  by  Magnus  Holmgren  <holmgren@debian.org>, for the Debian
       GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).