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. 
I can't find any use of this variable, so I guess it should not exist. Also, see below comment on why it is unsafe.