Java's MessageDigest SHA1-algorithm returns different result than SHA1-function of php

Question

I have a SQL table with usernames and passwords. The passwords are encoded using MessageDigest's digest() method. If I encode a password - let's say "abcdef12" - with MessageDigest's digest() method and then convert it to hexadecimal values, the String is different than if I do the same using PHP's SHA1-method. I'd expect these values to be exactly the same though.

Code that is used to encode the passwords:

MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1");
byte[] passbyte;
passbyte = "abcdef12".getBytes("UTF-8");
passbyte = md.digest(passbyte);

The conversion of the String to hexadecimal is done using this method:

public static String convertStringToHex(String str) {

    char[] chars = str.toCharArray();

    StringBuffer hex = new StringBuffer();
    for (int i = 0; i < chars.length; i++) {
        hex.append(Integer.toHexString((int) chars[i]));
    }

    return hex.toString();
}

Password: abcdef12

Here's the password as returned by a lot of SHA1-hash online generators and PHP SHA1()-function: d253e3bd69ce1e7ce6074345fd5faa1a3c2e89ef

Here's the password as encoded by MessageDigest: d253e3bd69ce1e7ce674345fd5faa1a3c2e2030ef

Am I forgetting something?

Igor.

Edit: I've found someone with a similar problem: C# SHA-1 vs. PHP SHA-1...Different Results? . The solution was to change encodings.. but I can't change encodings on the server-side since the passwords in that SQL-table are not created by my application. I use client-side SHA1-encoding using a JavaScript SHA1-class (more precisely: a Google Web Toolkit-class). It works and encodes the string as expected, but apparently using ASCII characters?..

Answer 1

Try this - it is working for me:

MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance(algorithm);
md.update(original.getBytes());
byte[] digest = md.digest();
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
for (byte b : digest) {
    sb.append(Integer.toString((b & 0xff) + 0x100, 16).substring(1));
}
return sb.toString();

Regards, Konki