Aha!, such a subtle difference, thank you so much! Cheers, Mike On Dec 7, 2007 6:08 AM, Plummer, Christina E. <Christina.Plummer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The first page is giving hex-encoded output of the SHA1 digest, and then > the second page gave you a base64-encoded output of the hex. Directory > Server never bothers to convert it to hex. > > A slightly wordy Perl one-liner illuminates this: > > perl -e 'use MIME::Base64; use Digest::SHA1 qw(sha1 sha1_hex); > $string="password"; print "Base64:\n\t", encode_base64( sha1($string) ); > print "Hex:\n\t",sha1_hex($string),"\n"; print "Base64 of Hex:\n\t", > encode_base64( sha1_hex($string) ); ' > Base64: > W6ph5Mm5Pz8GgiULbPgzG37mj9g= > Hex: > 5baa61e4c9b93f3f0682250b6cf8331b7ee68fd8 > Base64 of Hex: > NWJhYTYxZTRjOWI5M2YzZjA2ODIyNTBiNmNmODMzMWI3ZWU2OGZkOA== > > Hope that helps. -- Fedora-directory-users mailing list Fedora-directory-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users
