About SHA1

[satimis]

Hi folks,


Ubuntu 8.04

I have libdigest-sha1-perl installed on repo. But I can't find it running;

# which sha1/sha-1/SHA1/SHA-1

Please advise which package provides SHA1? TIA

B.R.
satimis

[Thrillhouse]

Have you tried sha1sum? I believe it belongs to the coreutils package.

[satimis]

Have you tried sha1sum? I believe it belongs to the coreutils package.

Hi Thrillhouse,

I need SHA1 command reading a text-password generating SHA1 hash to compare the encrypted passwords stored on MySQL database table. Can sha1sum work for me. TIA

B.R.
satimis

[Thrillhouse]

How are you trying to do this? A bash script? Perl? PHP? sha1sum would be suitable for a bash script. Perl and PHP have their own libraries (the Perl version, you have installed) for doing this. For Perl, it looks like the appropriate syntax would be:

use Digest::SHA1  qw(sha1 sha1_hex sha1_base64);

$digest = sha1($data);

[satimis]

How are you trying to do this? A bash script? Perl? PHP? sha1sum would be suitable for a bash script. Perl and PHP have their own libraries (the Perl version, you have installed) for doing this. For Perl, it looks like the appropriate syntax would be:

use Digest::SHA1  qw(sha1 sha1_hex sha1_base64);

$digest = sha1($data);

Hi Thrillhouse,

Ubuntu 8.04, 32bit

Thanks for your advice. Please provide me more detail how to do it.

E.g.;

I use "apassword" creating an encrypted password on a MySQL database table. The encrypted password on the table is "aaabbbcccddd" for example. The user with the plain password "apassword" can't login. I need to check the SHA1 hash on the said password on terminal for manual comparison. What command line shall I use? TIA

B.R.
satimis