Calculating SHA-1 hashes in Java and C#

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Calculating SHA-1 hashes in Java and C#

I\'m trying to replicate the logic of a Java application within a C# application. Part of this involves generating an SHA-1 ha

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In the Java version, do not use b + 256; instead, use b & 255. The SHA-1 part is fine, this is just a matter of printing the output. Java's "byte" type is signed: it returns values between -128 and 127. To get the corresponding unsigned value, you must add 256 only if the value is negative.

A bitwise AND with 255 (that's what "& 255" does) operates the proper conversion, which, at the binary level, is truncation of the value to its 8 least significant bits.