Implementing HMAC and SHA1 encryption in swift

Question

I am relatively new to Swift and i\'m stuck encrypting using HMAC and SHA1. I Found the following answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/24411522/4188344 but i can\'t work out h

Answer 1

If you want the same result in hexadecimal format, you can use the following extension:

extension String {
    func hmac(algorithm: HMACAlgorithm, key: String) -> String {
        let cKey = key.cStringUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)
        let cData = self.cStringUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)
        var result = [CUnsignedChar](count: Int(algorithm.digestLength()), repeatedValue: 0)
        let length : Int = Int(strlen(cKey!))
        let data : Int = Int(strlen(cData!))
        CCHmac(algorithm.toCCHmacAlgorithm(), cKey!,length , cData!, data, &result)

        let hmacData:NSData = NSData(bytes: result, length: (Int(algorithm.digestLength())))

        var bytes = [UInt8](count: hmacData.length, repeatedValue: 0)
        hmacData.getBytes(&bytes, length: hmacData.length)

        var hexString = ""
        for byte in bytes {
            hexString += String(format:"%02hhx", UInt8(byte))
        }
        return hexString
    }
}