.. index:: single: shake256(OutputBytes)
.. _shake256/1:

.. rst-class:: right

**object**

``shake256(OutputBytes)``
=========================

* ``OutputBytes`` - Number of output bytes to generate.


FIPS 202 SHAKE256 extensible-output function.

| **Availability:** 
|    ``logtalk_load(hashes(loader))``

| **Author:** Paulo Moura
| **Version:** 1:0:0
| **Date:** 2026-04-04

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static, context_switching_calls``


| **Extends:**
|    ``public`` :ref:`fips202_hash(136,31,OutputBytes) <fips202_hash/3>`

| **Remarks:**
|    (none)

| **Inherited public predicates:**
|     :ref:`hash_state_protocol/0::final_hash_state/2`  :ref:`hash_protocol/0::hash/2`  :ref:`hash_state_protocol/0::new_hash_state/1`  :ref:`hash_state_protocol/0::update_hash_state/3`  

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Public predicates
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(no local declarations; see entity ancestors if any)

Protected predicates
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(no local declarations; see entity ancestors if any)

Private predicates
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(no local declarations; see entity ancestors if any)

Operators
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(none)

.. seealso::

   :ref:`shake128(OutputBytes) <shake128/1>`, :ref:`sha3_224 <sha3_224/0>`, :ref:`sha3_256 <sha3_256/0>`, :ref:`sha3_384 <sha3_384/0>`, :ref:`sha3_512 <sha3_512/0>`

