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Crate for cryptographically hashing structs

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
cryptography

Research direction

Start by reading the linked RustCrypto/hashes issue for the detailed discussion and assessing the proposed use of serde. The issue does not name files, tests, or an entry point; work would need an agreed API and implementation scope before completion can be judged.

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Description

enhancement help wanted

In short: it would be good to have a way a standard way to hash structures. Probably the best approach would be to utilize serde for this.

See this issue for detailed discussion.

Dominant language
Rust
Stars
674
Forks
170
Avg merge
1d 12h
Merged PRs (30d)
10

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