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+# go-multihash
+
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+
+> [multihash](https://github.com/multiformats/multihash) implementation in Go
+
+## Table of Contents
+
+- [Install](#install)
+- [Usage](#usage)
+- [Maintainers](#maintainers)
+- [Contribute](#contribute)
+- [License](#license)
+
+## Install
+
+`go-multihash` is a standard Go module which can be installed with:
+
+```sh
+go get github.com/multiformats/go-multihash
+```
+
+## Usage
+
+
+### Example
+
+This example takes a standard hex-encoded data and uses `EncodeName` to calculate the SHA1 multihash value for the buffer.
+
+The resulting hex-encoded data corresponds to: `<hash function code><digest size><hash function output>`, which could be re-parsed
+with `Multihash.FromHexString()`.
+
+
+```go
+package main
+
+import (
+ "encoding/hex"
+ "fmt"
+
+ "github.com/multiformats/go-multihash"
+)
+
+func main() {
+ // ignores errors for simplicity.
+ // don't do that at home.
+ // Decode a SHA1 hash to a binary buffer
+ buf, _ := hex.DecodeString("0beec7b5ea3f0fdbc95d0dd47f3c5bc275da8a33")
+
+ // Create a new multihash with it.
+ mHashBuf, _ := multihash.EncodeName(buf, "sha1")
+ // Print the multihash as hex string
+ fmt.Printf("hex: %s\n", hex.EncodeToString(mHashBuf))
+
+ // Parse the binary multihash to a DecodedMultihash
+ mHash, _ := multihash.Decode(mHashBuf)
+ // Convert the sha1 value to hex string
+ sha1hex := hex.EncodeToString(mHash.Digest)
+ // Print all the information in the multihash
+ fmt.Printf("obj: %v 0x%x %d %s\n", mHash.Name, mHash.Code, mHash.Length, sha1hex)
+}
+```
+
+To run, copy to [example/foo.go](example/foo.go) and:
+
+```
+> cd example/
+> go build
+> ./example
+hex: 11140beec7b5ea3f0fdbc95d0dd47f3c5bc275da8a33
+obj: sha1 0x11 20 0beec7b5ea3f0fdbc95d0dd47f3c5bc275da8a33
+```
+
+## Contribute
+
+Contributions welcome. Please check out [the issues](https://github.com/multiformats/go-multihash/issues).
+
+Check out our [contributing document](https://github.com/multiformats/multiformats/blob/master/contributing.md) for more information on how we work, and about contributing in general. Please be aware that all interactions related to multiformats are subject to the IPFS [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/ipfs/community/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md).
+
+Small note: If editing the README, please conform to the [standard-readme](https://github.com/RichardLitt/standard-readme) specification.
+
+## License
+
+[MIT](LICENSE) © 2014 Juan Batiz-Benet