Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException; import java.security.MessageDigest; import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException; public class Main { final protected static char[] hexArray = "0123456789ABCDEF".toCharArray(); private static String sha1Hash(String toHash) { String hash = null; try { MessageDigest digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1"); byte[] bytes = toHash.getBytes("UTF-8"); digest.update(bytes, 0, bytes.length); bytes = digest.digest(); // This is ~55x faster than looping and String.formating() hash = bytesToHex(bytes); } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } return hash; } public static String bytesToHex(byte[] bytes) { char[] hexChars = new char[bytes.length * 2]; for (int j = 0; j < bytes.length; j++) { int v = bytes[j] & 0xFF; hexChars[j * 2] = hexArray[v >>> 4]; hexChars[j * 2 + 1] = hexArray[v & 0x0F]; } return new String(hexChars); } }