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Title: different implementations of SHA256
Post by: redPanda on March 17, 2015, 07:10:13 PM

Are there different implementations of SHA256 ?

from the bx library:

>bx sha256 800C28FCA386C7A227600B2FE50B7CAE11EC86D3BF1FBE471BE89827E19D72AA1D
8147786c4d15106333bf278d71dadaf1079ef2d2440a4dde37d747ded5403592

from https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Wallet_import_format
sha256 (800C28FCA386C7A227600B2FE50B7CAE11EC86D3BF1FBE471BE89827E19D72AA1D) =
8147786c4d15106333bf278d71dadaf1079ef2d2440a4dde37d747ded5403592

and

from c++ crypto++:
sha256(800C28FCA386C7A227600B2FE50B7CAE11EC86D3BF1FBE471BE89827E19D72AA1D) =
E2E4146A36E9C455CF95A4F259F162C353CD419CC3FD0E69AE36D7D1B6CD2C09

from: http://www.xorbin.com/tools/sha256-hash-calculator
sha256(800C28FCA386C7A227600B2FE50B7CAE11EC86D3BF1FBE471BE89827E19D72AA1D) =
e2e4146a36e9c455cf95a4f259f162c353cd419cc3fd0e69ae36d7d1b6cd2c09

Title: Re: different implementations of SHA256
Post by: cr1776 on March 18, 2015, 12:00:38 AM

Quote from: redPanda on March 17, 2015, 07:10:13 PM

The difference is in hashing the string (an ASCII representation of a hex number) instead of the actual hex number itself.

The wiki hashes the number, the calculator is hashing the string.

Title: Re: different implementations of SHA256
Post by: redPanda on March 18, 2015, 02:34:23 PM

I finally got the right output:
instead of doing:

Code:

// WRONG
string myString("800C28FCA386C7A227600B2FE50B7CAE11EC86D3BF1FBE471BE89827E19D72AA1D");
string myStringSHA = SHA256(myString)

I used:

Code:

// OK
string digest;
StringSource(myString, true, new HexDecoder(new StringSink(digest)));
string myStringSHA = SHA256(digest);

Thanks a lot :)

Title: Re: different implementations of SHA256
Post by: cr1776 on March 18, 2015, 03:10:36 PM

Quote from: redPanda on March 18, 2015, 02:34:23 PM

I finally got the right output:
instead of doing:

Code:

// WRONG
string myString("800C28FCA386C7A227600B2FE50B7CAE11EC86D3BF1FBE471BE89827E19D72AA1D");
string myStringSHA = SHA256(myString)

I used:

Code:

// OK
string digest;
StringSource(myString, true, new HexDecoder(new StringSink(digest)));
string myStringSHA = SHA256(digest);

Thanks a lot :)

Exactly! ;-)

It can be tricky.

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