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What's the characterset of SHA1?

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I need to know what character will the SHA1 will generate for me?

Is it possible to know the characterset of the SHA1? Or if it's configurable, what's the default characterset of it?

Thank you.

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Leo.W Avatar asked May 20 '11 08:05

Leo.W


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2 Answers

SHA-1 doesn't generate text, it generates a binary hash (like most digests), so it doesn't have a charset (or care about the input's charset for that matter).

You can represent it as text (a string representation of the hex value, and base64 are popular) if you want, especially if you need to transfer it over the network or display it to users. That encoding is up to you.

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Mat Avatar answered Oct 21 '22 10:10

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I'm fairly sure it's just binary data rather than any character encoding. You could then encode that in Base64 if you like.

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Nick Avatar answered Oct 21 '22 11:10

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