I need to Hash a value that is set to a server over ethernet. After looking I am not certain what Hash functions are available. Does anyone know if there are any standard hash functions like MD5 or SHA for the arduino?
I need to Hash a value that is set to a server over ethernet.
Why? Can you explain what you are trying to do? I don't think that generating a hash value is the answer.
I am trying to have the arduino send a message to the server and was planning on hashing the UUID, password and a timestamp in order to act as a one time password on the server. In otherwords once the hash is used to authenticate once the server will not accept it again.
I guess it's a matter of semantics. Generally a hash value is used to partition data in a hash table that contains pointers to where data is really stored, in the case where there is a large amount of data, with no reasonable way to sort the data (because the volume of data is too large to move using a traditional sort).
So, I don't think that a hash value is what you want, but, I understand your desire. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to help you.
So I take it that there are no functions that provide an MD5Sum or any other hash algorithms available on the arduino?
Are you trying to generate a "nonce"?
Not that I know of in arduino, google around for C / avr-asm implementations of various hashes, they're around.
XTEA encrypt is only 6 lines long, if low security is fine:
Assuming 16char limit on passwd, encrypt concatenation of 32bit UID and 32bit time using the zero padded passwd as the key.
There is an awesome c implementation on sha-1 somewhere on the web, Google it. I used it for my nintendo DS a while ago.
However it it possible that sha-1 is a bit to advanced and power consuming i guess. I would just make my own hash function, as it is fairly easy. Unless you require bank security.
Here's a crypto library for AVR microcontrollers: AVR-Crypto-Lib/en – LaborWiki
(FWIW, that was the 3rd hit on google using 'AVR SHA-1' - there are tons more. This does not seem novel.)
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I get what you are trying to do.
I modified the AVR-Crypto MD5 implementation so that it can be used as a library.