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(VB.NET UWP/WinRT) Hashing Encoded Data

This example explains how it's important to know exactly what bytes are getting hashed when working with encoded data, such as hex, base64, etc.

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Chilkat for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP)

' This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

Dim crypt As New Chilkat.Crypt2

' Imagine we want to SHA-1 hash this A9133F6DC63E85BE0619763F8975CA076FF91B95CB6F121CD21C016143315E11B9ED4374F174B2CC
Dim strToHash As String = "A9133F6DC63E85BE0619763F8975CA076FF91B95CB6F121CD21C016143315E11B9ED4374F174B2CC"

' The question is:  Do we want to hash the bytes 0xA9, 0x13, 0x3F...
' or do we want to literally hash each us-ascii byte:  'A', '9', '1', '3'.

' The results will obviously be different depending on what bytes are actually hashed.

' To hash the decoded bytes (i.e. 0xA9, 0x13, 0x3F...) we do this:

' "hex" is not an actual character encoding.  It's a special value to be used to tell Chilkat to hex decode
' the string and pass the decoded bytes to the hash algorithm...
crypt.Charset = "hex"
crypt.HashAlgorithm = "sha1"
' Get the hash result in lowercase hex
crypt.EncodingMode = "hex_lower"
Dim hashValue As String = crypt.HashStringENC(strToHash)
Debug.WriteLine("hash of decoded hex bytes: " & hashValue)

' The result is 7a4a2ba73811fab98b4baaee2df164cbdd0d8e8e


' This is how to hash the us-ascii byte values:
' The Charset property defines the byte representation of the string passed to the hash algorithm:
crypt.Charset = "us-ascii"
' The EncodingMode property defines the binary encoding (hex, base64, etc.) of the hash returned as an encoded string.
crypt.EncodingMode = "hex"
crypt.HashAlgorithm = "sha1"

hashValue = crypt.HashStringENC(strToHash)
Debug.WriteLine("hash of us-ascii bytes: " & hashValue)

' The result is:  2A7500F88734F4B19C79852CA0FF3E1C561F31C8


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