EVP_ripemd160.3ossl - Man Page

EVP_ripemd160 ​- RIPEMD160 For EVP

Synopsis

​ #include <openssl/evp.h>
​
​ const EVP_MD *EVP_ripemd160(void);

Description

RIPEMD-160 is a cryptographic hash function first published in 1996 belonging to the RIPEMD family (RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest). This implementation is only available with the legacy provider.

EVP_ripemd160()

The RIPEMD-160 algorithm which produces a 160-bit output from a given input.

Notes

Developers should be aware of the negative performance implications of calling this function multiple times and should consider using ​EVP_MD_fetch(3) with EVP_MD-RIPEMD160(7) instead. See "Performance" in crypto(7) for further information.

Return Values

These functions return a EVP_MD structure that contains the implementation of the message digest. See EVP_MD_meth_new(3) for details of the EVP_MD structure.

Conforming to

ISO/IEC 10118-3:2016 Dedicated Hash-Function 1 (RIPEMD-160).

See Also

evp(7), ​provider(7), ​EVP_DigestInit(3)

Referenced By

EVP_DigestInit.3ossl(3).

2026-08-25 3.5.8 OpenSSL