}

    /**
     * Generates the NT password hash for the given password.
     * This version accepts char[] for better security.
     *
     * @param password the password to hash as char array
     * @return nt password hash
     */
    public static byte[] getNTHash(final char[] password) {
        if (password == null) {
            throw new NullPointerException("Password parameter is required");

            }
            count++;
        }

        return value;
    }

    static final char[] HEXCHARS = { '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F' };

    private static String bin_to_hex(int value, final int length) {
        final char[] arr = new char[length];
        int ai = arr.length;
        while (ai-- > 0) {
            arr[ai] = HEXCHARS[value & 0xF];

     * @return a hexadecimal string representation of the value, padded to the specified size
     */
    public static String toHexString(final int val, final int size) {
        final char[] c = new char[size];
        toHexChars(val, c, 0, size);
        return new String(c);
    }

    /**
     * Converts a long value to a hexadecimal string representation with specified padding.
     *

    /**
     * Performs constant-time comparison of two char arrays to prevent timing attacks.
     * This method always compares the full length of both arrays, regardless of when
     * differences are found, making the execution time independent of the position
     * of differing characters.
     *
     * @param a first char array to compare
     * @param b second char array to compare
     * @return true if arrays are equal, false otherwise

  }

  static void checkExactMatches(CharMatcher m, char[] chars) {
    Set<Character> positive = Sets.newHashSetWithExpectedSize(chars.length);
    for (char c : chars) {
      positive.add(c);
    }
    for (int c = 0; c <= Character.MAX_VALUE; c++) {
      assertFalse(positive.contains(Character.valueOf((char) c)) ^ m.matches((char) c));
    }
  }

  static char[] randomChars(Random rand, int size) {

        if (length == 0) {
            return;
        }

        final int s = length % 16;
        final int r = s == 0 ? length / 16 : length / 16 + 1;
        final char[] c = new char[r * (74 + NL_LENGTH)];
        final char[] d = new char[16];
        int i;
        int si = 0;
        int ci = 0;

        do {
            toHexChars(si, c, ci, 5);
            ci += 5;
            c[ci] = ':';

  static long copyReaderToBuilder(Reader from, StringBuilder to) throws IOException {
    checkNotNull(from);
    checkNotNull(to);
    char[] buf = new char[DEFAULT_BUF_SIZE];
    int nRead;
    long total = 0;
    while ((nRead = from.read(buf)) != -1) {
      to.append(buf, 0, nRead);
      total += nRead;
    }
    return total;
  }

  /**

      int h1 = seed;
      int i = 0;
      int len = 0;

      // This loop optimizes for pure ASCII.
      while (i + 4 <= utf16Length) {
        char c0 = input.charAt(i);
        char c1 = input.charAt(i + 1);
        char c2 = input.charAt(i + 2);
        char c3 = input.charAt(i + 3);
        if (c0 < 0x80 && c1 < 0x80 && c2 < 0x80 && c3 < 0x80) {
          int k1 = c0 | (c1 << 8) | (c2 << 16) | (c3 << 24);

            + "\u0ce6\u0d66\u0e50\u0ed0\u0f20\u1040\u1090\u17e0\u1810\u1946"
            + "\u19d0\u1b50\u1bb0\u1c40\u1c50\ua620\ua8d0\ua900\uaa50\uff10";
    for (char base : zeros.toCharArray()) {
      for (int offset = 0; offset < 10; offset++) {
        sb.append((char) (base + offset));
      }
    }
    ALL_DIGITS = sb.toString();
  }

  /** Sample CharMatcher instances for benchmarking. */
  public enum SampleMatcherConfig {

   */
  private static char[] growBuffer(char[] dest, int index, int size) {
    if (size < 0) { // overflow - should be OutOfMemoryError but GWT/j2cl don't support it
      throw new AssertionError("Cannot increase internal buffer any further");
    }
    char[] copy = new char[size];
    if (index > 0) {
      System.arraycopy(dest, 0, copy, 0, index);
    }