Top "Digest" questions

A hash function is any well-defined procedure or mathematical function that converts a large amount of data into a small datum, usually a single integer.

Example of SOAP request authenticated with WS-UsernameToken

I'm trying to authenticate a SOAP request using WS-UsernameToken spec, but the target device is always denying access. My non-working …

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Get MD5 String from Message Digest

I understand how it works but if I want to print out the MD5 as String how would I do …

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How can I calculate the SHA-256 hash of a string in Android?

I'm trying to get the SHA256 of a string in Android. Here is the PHP code that I want to …

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RoR - MD5 generation

How can I encrypt a string with MD5 in Rails 3.0 ? pass = MD5.hexdigest(pass) in a model yields uninitialized constant …

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XML Signature: How to calculate the digest value?

I have an XML like this <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <foo> <bar> <value&…

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Creating an md5 hash of a number, string, array, or hash in Ruby

I need to create a signature string for a variable in Ruby, where the variable can be a number, a …

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Method not found using DigestUtils in Android

I am trying to use the library DigestUtils in Android 2.3.1 using JDK 1.6, however I get the following error when executing …

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How can I do digest authentication with HttpWebRequest?

Various articles (1, 2) I discovered make this look easy enough: WebRequest request = HttpWebRequest.Create(url); var credentialCache = new CredentialCache(); credentialCache.Add( …

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Why chose SHA512 over SHA384?

SHA384 is a truncated version of SHA512. But why would anyone use it? And corollary: if SHA384 is just as …

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HTTP Digest Authentication versus SSL

What is the difference between HTTP Digest Authentication and SSL from a performance, security and flexibility point of view?

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