Trying to Write NSString sha1 function, but it's returning null

Question

I have the following Objective-C function:

+(NSString *)stringToSha1:(NSString *)str{
    NSMutableData *dataToHash = [[NSMutableData alloc] init];
    [data         


        

Answer 1

This is what I ended up with, the next step would be to convert it to be a Category of NSString instead of a static method in a helper class:

+(NSString *)stringToSha1:(NSString *)str{
    const char *s = [str cStringUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
    NSData *keyData = [NSData dataWithBytes:s length:strlen(s)];

    // This is the destination
    uint8_t digest[CC_SHA1_DIGEST_LENGTH] = {0};
    // This one function does an unkeyed SHA1 hash of your hash data
    CC_SHA1(keyData.bytes, keyData.length, digest);

    // Now convert to NSData structure to make it usable again
    NSData *out = [NSData dataWithBytes:digest length:CC_SHA1_DIGEST_LENGTH];
    // description converts to hex but puts <> around it and spaces every 4 bytes
    NSString *hash = [out description];
    hash = [hash stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@" " withString:@""];
    hash = [hash stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"<" withString:@""];
    hash = [hash stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@">" withString:@""];

    NSLog(@"Hash is %@ for string %@", hash, str);

    return hash;
}