[openssl-users] OpenSSL SHA algorithm

[Dennis Clarke]

On 25/12/17 10:44 PM, Swapnil Deshpande wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Noob here. I recently discovered that the "-sha1" and "-sha" flags in 
> the "openssl dgst" command produce different outputs. I thought those 
> were the same algorithms but turns out they are not:
> 
> $ echo -n "password" | openssl dgst -sha
> 
> 80072568beb3b2102325eb203f6d0ff92f5cef8e
> 
> 
> $ echo -n "password" | openssl dgst -sha1
> 
> 5baa61e4c9b93f3f0682250b6cf8331b7ee68fd8
> 



A quick google shows :

SHA0x01 80072568beb3b2102325eb203f6d0ff92f5cef8e:password
SHA0x02 63addb5d2099f2d9b44210063c6b9aa74b2d7017:password
SHA0x03 a958d2144134061b83e164acb74de1d2fa9b1970:password
SHA0x04 a72a9711884c867812110bcfbb60fb87550e3810:password
SHA0x05 7d57e2c9ad5cbee4cd75e32814efb1a8dbc7384f:password

https://gist.github.com/rumikotakahashi/f3d377ff81e878f7fffb4b38cc9f4bf6

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