SHA1 hashing in Delphi XE

Question

I\'m in the process of implementing XML digital signatures. I\'m starting with little steps, so right now I want to solve the problem of SHA-1 hashing.

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Answer 1

My Cygwin command-prompt tells me it is indeed Unicode that's confusing you:

~$ printf 'a\0b\0c\0' | sha1sum
9f04f41a848514162050e3d68c1a7abb441dc2b5 *-
~$ printf 'abc' | sha1sum
a9993e364706816aba3e25717850c26c9cd0d89d *-