Re: programming advice, calculating a sha256 hash

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Can't you just use this, from coreutils?  Or re-use their code. 

	knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ sha256sum --version
sha256sum (GNU coreutils) 8.4
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knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ echo -n '' | sha256sum 
e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855  -
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ 

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 Subject: programming advice, calculating a sha256 hash
 Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:44:49 +0200
 From: Nathan Coulson <[email protected]>
 To: General chatter list <[email protected]>

 Probably not the normal use for this channel, but *shrug*, can't
hurt.

 I was attempting to code a sha256 hash function, for hashing a
 password before sending it over the open net.  (Sounds like it's
 better then md5 for this)

 getting started, I found some psedocode at
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA2 and went to work.

 decided a blank string would be the best,

 It gives me
 74525b2e06b6cfebaa347250d2a6c6c9a5438fbbd4b44ffefe68dcdd7b1d1206

 but according to wikipedia above, it should be
 e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855

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