Digests the contents of the Blob.

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object.Digest Data, OutBlob

The Digest Method syntax has these parts:

The Digest method will take an existing Data Blob, and calculate its hash/digest value. The result will be stored to OutBlob initialized by your program. The resulting Blob will *always* contain 16/20 bytes, depending on whether MD5 or SHA1 algorithm type is used.

To provide some background theory, a hash/digest function is a transformation that takes a variable size input, and returns a fixed size byte array/string. A hash function is said to be one-way, because it is hard to invert it - meaning it's almost impossible to determine the original data from it's hashed equivalent.

Hash functions do not require any secret key, they operate by internal algorithm only. A typical example would be:

Dim crypt As New wodCryptCom
Dim i_blob As New MemBlob
Dim o_blob As New MemBlob
i_blob.Text = "this is text to be digested"
crypt.Type = MD5
crypt.Digest i_blob, o_blob
Debug.Print o_blob.ToBase64

result:
GlFJb6uRzUC7MeLUBLdVzg==

Hash functions are usually used when both parties in a conversation need to prove they both have same data (but don't want to reveal it to other side, just in case...). They both calculate their digest and, if they match, then both parties have same data. If it does not match then the other party cannot derive the original data given the hash value alone.