Digester.java

/*
 * Copyright 2012 Mirko Caserta
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this software except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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package com.springcryptoutils.core.digest;

/**
 * Generic interface for getting message digests.
 *
 * @author Mirko Caserta (mirko.caserta@gmail.com)
 */
public interface Digester {

    /**
     * Returns the message digest.
     *
     * @param message the message
     * @return the message digest
     */
    String digest(String message);

    /**
     * Returns the message digest in raw bytes format.
     *
     * @param message the message
     * @return the message digest
     */
    byte[] digest(byte[] message);

}