# beacon_chain # Copyright (c) 2018-2019 Status Research & Development GmbH # Licensed and distributed under either of # * MIT license (license terms in the root directory or at http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT). # * Apache v2 license (license terms in the root directory or at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0). # at your option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed except according to those terms. # Serenity hash function / digest # # https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs/blob/v0.8.1/specs/core/0_beacon-chain.md#hash # # In Phase 0 the beacon chain is deployed with SHA256 (SHA2-256). # Note that is is different from Keccak256 (often mistakenly called SHA3-256) # and SHA3-256. # # In Eth1.0, the default hash function is Keccak256 and SHA256 is available as a precompiled contract. # # In our code base, to enable a smooth transition # (already did Blake2b --> Keccak256 --> SHA2-256), # we call this function `eth2hash`, and it outputs a `Eth2Digest`. Easy to sed :) import nimcrypto/[sha2, hash], eth/common/eth_types_json_serialization, hashes export eth_types_json_serialization, hash.`$` type Eth2Digest* = MDigest[32 * 8] ## `hash32` from spec Eth2Hash* = sha256 ## Context for hash function func shortLog*(x: Eth2Digest): string = # result = is needed to fix https://github.com/status-im/nim-beacon-chain/issues/209 result = ($x)[0..7] # TODO: expose an in-place digest function # when hashing in loop or into a buffer # See: https://github.com/cheatfate/nimcrypto/blob/b90ba3abd/nimcrypto/sha2.nim#L570 func eth2hash*(v: openArray[byte]): Eth2Digest {.inline.} = # We use the init-update-finish interface to avoid # the expensive burning/clearing memory (20~30% perf) # TODO: security implication? var ctx: sha256 ctx.init() ctx.update(v) result = ctx.finish() template withEth2Hash*(body: untyped): Eth2Digest = ## This little helper will init the hash function and return the sliced ## hash: ## let hashOfData = withHash: h.update(data) var h {.inject.}: sha256 h.init() body var res = h.finish() res func hash*(x: Eth2Digest): Hash = ## Hash for digests for Nim hash tables # Stub for BeaconChainDB # We just slice the first 4 or 8 bytes of the block hash # depending of if we are on a 32 or 64-bit platform result = cast[ptr Hash](unsafeAddr x)[]