Code forHow to Use Hashing Algorithms in Python using hashlib Tutorial

simple_hashing.py

import hashlib# encode it to bytes using UTF-8 encodingmessage = "Some text to hash".encode()# hash with MD5 (not recommended)print("MD5:", hashlib.md5(message).hexdigest())# hash with SHA-2 (SHA-256 & SHA-512)print("SHA-256:", hashlib.sha256(message).hexdigest())print("SHA-512:", hashlib.sha512(message).hexdigest())# hash with SHA-3print("SHA-3-256:", hashlib.sha3_256(message).hexdigest())print("SHA-3-512:", hashlib.sha3_512(message).hexdigest())# hash with BLAKE2# 256-bit BLAKE2 (or BLAKE2s)print("BLAKE2c:", hashlib.blake2s(message).hexdigest())# 512-bit BLAKE2 (or BLAKE2b)print("BLAKE2b:", hashlib.blake2b(message).hexdigest())

hashing_files.py

import hashlibimport sysdef read_file(file):    """Reads en entire file and returns file bytes."""    BUFFER_SIZE = 16384 # 16 kilo bytes    b = b""    with open(file, "rb") as f:        while True:            # read 16K bytes from the file            bytes_read = f.read(BUFFER_SIZE)            if bytes_read:                # if there is bytes, append them                b += bytes_read            else:                # if not, nothing to do here, break out of the loop                break    return bif __name__ == "__main__":    # read some file    file_content = read_file(sys.argv[1])    # some chksums:    # hash with MD5 (not recommended)    print("MD5:", hashlib.md5(file_content).hexdigest())    # hash with SHA-2 (SHA-256 & SHA-512)    print("SHA-256:", hashlib.sha256(file_content).hexdigest())    print("SHA-512:", hashlib.sha512(file_content).hexdigest())    # hash with SHA-3    print("SHA-3-256:", hashlib.sha3_256(file_content).hexdigest())    print("SHA-3-512:", hashlib.sha3_512(file_content).hexdigest())    # hash with BLAKE2    # 256-bit BLAKE2 (or BLAKE2s)    print("BLAKE2c:", hashlib.blake2s(file_content).hexdigest())    # 512-bit BLAKE2 (or BLAKE2b)    print("BLAKE2b:", hashlib.blake2b(file_content).hexdigest())

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