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Use glib's SHA1, SHA256, and MD5 implementations when available (glib 2.16) These SHA1 and SHA256 implementations do not expose any options, which the built-in ones do (for getting/setting sizeHi, sizeLo, and lenW). Nothing in Pidgin uses those (and I can't think of a decent use case), so I think this is OK. Feel free to disagree. As I mentioned on the mailing list, glib's SHA1 implementation was just under 3x as fast on my system.

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the HOWTOs in the
"Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.