feat: add SHAKE hash generator interfaces #27
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Thank you for your amazing work.
I noticed that in versions before 1.4.0, there used to be experimental functions called
shake256generator
andshake128generator
for generating infinite-length hashes.I think these two interfaces are very useful and necessary, especially for cryptography, so this PR hopes to restore them.
A typical application scenario is to generate high-quality random integers in a specified range. If I want the distribution to be as uniform as possible, it is best to use rejection sampling, and an infinite-length hash is very useful. The difference from using random directly is that I can use bytes as a seed, and the algorithm is standardized, so it can be easily reproduced in different languages.