.. index:: single: hash_protocol
.. _hash_protocol/0:

.. rst-class:: right

**protocol**

``hash_protocol``
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Hashing protocol. Hash values are returned as lowercase hexadecimal atoms using the output width of each algorithm or extensible-output function instance.

| **Availability:** 
|    ``logtalk_load(hashes(loader))``

| **Author:** Paulo Moura
| **Version:** 1:0:0
| **Date:** 2026-04-04

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static``


| **Dependencies:**
|   (none)


| **Remarks:**
|    (none)

| **Inherited public predicates:**
|    (none)

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Public predicates
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.. index:: hash/2
.. _hash_protocol/0::hash/2:

``hash/2``
^^^^^^^^^^

Computes the hash for a list of bytes.

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static``

| **Template:**
|    ``hash(Bytes,Hash)``
| **Mode and number of proofs:**
|    ``hash(+list(byte),--atom)`` - ``one``


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Protected predicates
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(none)

Private predicates
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(none)

Operators
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(none)