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The base exception for JSON errors.
This exception is raised if the required unicode support is missing on the system. Usually this means that the iconv library is not installed.
OpenSSL::Digest allows you to compute message digests (sometimes interchangeably called “hashes”) of arbitrary data that are cryptographically secure, i.e. a Digest implements a secure one-way function.
One-way functions offer some useful properties. E.g. given two distinct inputs the probability that both yield the same output is highly unlikely. Combined with the fact that every message digest algorithm has a fixed-length output of just a few bytes, digests are often used to create unique identifiers for arbitrary data. A common example is the creation of a unique id for binary documents that are stored in a database.
Another useful characteristic of one-way functions (and thus the name) is that given a digest there is no indication about the original data that produced it, i.e. the only way to identify the original input is to “brute-force” through every possible combination of inputs.
These characteristics make one-way functions also ideal companions for public key signature algorithms: instead of signing an entire document, first a hash of the document is produced with a considerably faster message digest algorithm and only the few bytes of its output need to be signed using the slower public key algorithm. To validate the integrity of a signed document, it suffices to re-compute the hash and verify that it is equal to that in the signature.
Among the supported message digest algorithms are:
SHA, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512
MD2, MD4, MDC2 and MD5
RIPEMD160
DSS, DSS1 (Pseudo algorithms to be used for DSA signatures. DSS is equal to SHA and DSS1 is equal to SHA1)
For each of these algorithms, there is a sub-class of Digest that can be instantiated as simply as e.g.
digest = OpenSSL::Digest::SHA1.new
Digest class and sn/ln The sn (short names) and ln (long names) are defined in <openssl/object.h> and <openssl/obj_mac.h>. They are textual representations of ASN.1 OBJECT IDENTIFIERs. Each supported digest algorithm has an OBJECT IDENTIFIER associated to it and those again have short/long names assigned to them. E.g. the OBJECT IDENTIFIER for SHA-1 is 1.3.14.3.2.26 and its sn is “SHA1” and its ln is “sha1”.
sn: MD2
ln: md2
sn: MD4
ln: md4
sn: MD5
ln: md5
sn: SHA
ln: SHA
sn: SHA1
ln: sha1
sn: SHA224
ln: sha224
sn: SHA256
ln: sha256
sn: SHA384
ln: sha384
sn: SHA512
ln: sha512
“Breaking” a message digest algorithm means defying its one-way function characteristics, i.e. producing a collision or finding a way to get to the original data by means that are more efficient than brute-forcing etc. Most of the supported digest algorithms can be considered broken in this sense, even the very popular MD5 and SHA1 algorithms. Should security be your highest concern, then you should probably rely on SHA224, SHA256, SHA384 or SHA512.
data = File.read('document') sha256 = OpenSSL::Digest::SHA256.new digest = sha256.digest(data)
data1 = File.read('file1') data2 = File.read('file2') data3 = File.read('file3') sha256 = OpenSSL::Digest::SHA256.new sha256 << data1 sha256 << data2 sha256 << data3 digest = sha256.digest
Digest instance data1 = File.read('file1') sha256 = OpenSSL::Digest::SHA256.new digest1 = sha256.digest(data1) data2 = File.read('file2') sha256.reset digest2 = sha256.digest(data2)
Generic error, common for all classes under OpenSSL module
Generic Error for all of OpenSSL::BN (big num)
General error for openssl library configuration files. Including formatting, parsing errors, etc.
Document-class: OpenSSL::HMAC
OpenSSL::HMAC allows computing Hash-based Message Authentication Code (HMAC). It is a type of message authentication code (MAC) involving a hash function in combination with a key. HMAC can be used to verify the integrity of a message as well as the authenticity.
OpenSSL::HMAC has a similar interface to OpenSSL::Digest.
key = "key" data = "message-to-be-authenticated" mac = OpenSSL::HMAC.hexdigest("SHA256", key, data) #=> "cddb0db23f469c8bf072b21fd837149bd6ace9ab771cceef14c9e517cc93282e"
data1 = File.read("file1") data2 = File.read("file2") key = "key" digest = OpenSSL::Digest::SHA256.new hmac = OpenSSL::HMAC.new(key, digest) hmac << data1 hmac << data2 mac = hmac.digest
This class works in conjunction with Psych::Parser to build an in-memory parse tree that represents a YAML document.
parser = Psych::Parser.new Psych::TreeBuilder.new parser.parse('--- foo') tree = parser.handler.root
See Psych::Handler for documentation on the event methods used in this class.
UDP/IP address information used by Socket.udp_server_loop.
The superclass for all exceptions raised by Ruby/zlib.
The following exceptions are defined as subclasses of Zlib::Error. These exceptions are raised when zlib library functions return with an error status.
Subclass of Zlib::Error when zlib returns a Z_DATA_ERROR.
Usually if a stream was prematurely freed.
Subclass of Zlib::Error
When zlib returns a Z_MEM_ERROR, usually if there was not enough memory.
Subclass of Zlib::Error when zlib returns a Z_BUF_ERROR.
Usually if no progress is possible.
Subclass of Zlib::Error
When zlib returns a Z_VERSION_ERROR, usually if the zlib library version is incompatible with the version assumed by the caller.
Zlib::GzipReader is the class for reading a gzipped file. GzipReader should be used as an IO, or -IO-like, object.
Zlib::GzipReader.open('hoge.gz') {|gz| print gz.read } File.open('hoge.gz') do |f| gz = Zlib::GzipReader.new(f) print gz.read gz.close end
Method Catalogue The following methods in Zlib::GzipReader are just like their counterparts in IO, but they raise Zlib::Error or Zlib::GzipFile::Error exception if an error was found in the gzip file.
Be careful of the footer of the gzip file. A gzip file has the checksum of pre-compressed data in its footer. GzipReader checks all uncompressed data against that checksum at the following cases, and if it fails, raises Zlib::GzipFile::NoFooter, Zlib::GzipFile::CRCError, or Zlib::GzipFile::LengthError exception.
When an reading request is received beyond the end of file (the end of compressed data). That is, when Zlib::GzipReader#read, Zlib::GzipReader#gets, or some other methods for reading returns nil.
When Zlib::GzipFile#close method is called after the object reaches the end of file.
When Zlib::GzipReader#unused method is called after the object reaches the end of file.
The rest of the methods are adequately described in their own documentation.
Objects of class File::Stat encapsulate common status information for File objects. The information is recorded at the moment the File::Stat object is created; changes made to the file after that point will not be reflected. File::Stat objects are returned by IO#stat, File::stat, File#lstat, and File::lstat. Many of these methods return platform-specific values, and not all values are meaningful on all systems. See also Kernel#test.
The InstructionSequence class represents a compiled sequence of instructions for the Ruby Virtual Machine.
With it, you can get a handle to the instructions that make up a method or a proc, compile strings of Ruby code down to VM instructions, and disassemble instruction sequences to strings for easy inspection. It is mostly useful if you want to learn how the Ruby VM works, but it also lets you control various settings for the Ruby iseq compiler.
You can find the source for the VM instructions in insns.def in the Ruby source.
The instruction sequence results will almost certainly change as Ruby changes, so example output in this documentation may be different from what you see.