Java tutorial
//package com.googlecode.propidle.util; import static java.lang.String.format; import java.security.MessageDigest; import java.math.BigInteger; /* Based on http://www.anyexample.com/programming/java/java_simple_class_to_compute_sha_1_hash.xml */ public class Sha1 { public static String sha1(String text) { try { MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1"); md.update(text.getBytes("iso-8859-1"), 0, text.length()); return convertToHex(md.digest()); } catch (Exception e) { throw new Exception(format("Problem hashing %s", text), e); } } private static String convertToHex(byte[] data) { StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer(); for (int i = 0; i < data.length; i++) { int halfbyte = (data[i] >>> 4) & 0x0F; int two_halfs = 0; do { if ((0 <= halfbyte) && (halfbyte <= 9)) buf.append((char) ('0' + halfbyte)); else buf.append((char) ('a' + (halfbyte - 10))); halfbyte = data[i] & 0x0F; } while (two_halfs++ < 1); } return buf.toString(); } }