Hashing API

Here is the Hashing API I have written as part of my GSoC project. PreferredAlgorithms includes all my benchmarks except for Signatures as that requires my SigType enum. Benchmarks are based off of what I found that was already in the codebase. 
HashResult asserts in the constructor that the hash should the same length as type.hashLenght. Should I check this anyways?