Generating the SHA hash of a string using golang

Question

Can someone show me a working example of how to generate a SHA hash of a string that I have, say myPassword := \"beautiful\" , using Go 1 ?

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Answer 1

Go By Example has a page on sha1 hashing.

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "crypto/sha1"
    "encoding/hex"
)

func main() {

    s := "sha1 this string"
    h := sha1.New()
    h.Write([]byte(s))
    sha1_hash := hex.EncodeToString(h.Sum(nil))

    fmt.Println(s, sha1_hash)
}

You can run this example on play.golang.org