In this example you’ll learn how to generate an SHA-1 digest using the Apache Commons Codec DigestUtils
class. In the last two examples you’ve already seen how to generate the MD5 digest using the same library. Compared to the MD5 version the SHA-1 digest is known to be stronger to brute force attacks, but it is slower to generate. The SHA-1 produces a 160 bit (20 byte) message digest while the MD5 produces only a 128 bit message digest (16 byte).
In the code snippet below we demonstrate three different ways to use the DigestUtils.sha1Hex()
method. In the first method in the example, the byteDigest()
, we calculate the digest from an array of byte data. Followed by the second method, the inputStreamDigest()
where we calculate the digest of an InputStream
object. And on the last method we call the overload version of the sha1Hex()
method to calculate the digest of a string.
Let’s see the full code snippet.
package org.kodejava.commons.codec;
import org.apache.commons.codec.digest.DigestUtils;
import java.io.*;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
public class SHAHashDemo {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SHAHashDemo demo = new SHAHashDemo();
demo.byteDigest();
demo.inputStreamDigest();
demo.stringDigest();
}
/**
* Calculates SHA-1 digest from byte array.
*/
private void byteDigest() {
System.out.println("SHAHashDemo.byteDigest");
byte[] data = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
String digest = DigestUtils.sha1Hex(data);
System.out.println("Digest = " + digest);
System.out.println("Digest.length() = " + digest.length());
}
/**
* Calculates SHA-1 digest of InputStream object.
*/
private void inputStreamDigest() {
System.out.println("SHAHashDemo.inputStreamDigest");
String data = System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/data.txt";
File file = new File(data);
try (InputStream is = new FileInputStream(file)) {
String digest = DigestUtils.sha1Hex(is);
System.out.println("Digest = " + digest);
System.out.println("Digest.length() = " + digest.length());
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
/**
* Calculate SHA-1 digest of a string / text.
*/
private void stringDigest() {
System.out.println("SHAHashDemo.stringDigest");
String data = "This is just a simple data message for SHA digest demo.";
String digest = DigestUtils.sha1Hex(data);
System.out.println("Digest = " + digest);
System.out.println("Digest.length() = " + digest.length());
}
}
When you run the code it will output the following result:
SHAHashDemo.byteDigest
Digest = 408d94384216f890ff7a0c3528e8bed1e0b01621
Digest.length() = 40
SHAHashDemo.inputStreamDigest
Digest = da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709
Digest.length() = 40
SHAHashDemo.stringDigest
Digest = 4290d13ca383c2159c442d75355d83e310a2ea15
Digest.length() = 40
Maven Dependencies
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
<version>1.16.0</version>
</dependency>
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