Perl SHA digest

[problem]

You want to generate a SHA digest for a given string.

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[solution]

Perl has great encryption and digesting algorithms.

In the example tab we use the Digest Perl module.

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[example]


perl -M'Digest::SHA1 qw(sha1_hex)'
-e '$dig=sha1_hex("my big test"); print "$dign";'

419e6139a21f51a3f2ea1a783cfe536a0dada873

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[reference]

[tags]Perl SHA Digest, Perl, SHA, Encryption, Perl Coding School[/tags]

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