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

Here's some good examples:

• http://golang.org/src/pkg/crypto/hmac/hmac_test.go
• http://www.jokecamp.com/blog/examples-of-creating-base64-hashes-using-hmac-sha256-in-different-languages/#go

The second example targets sha256, to do sha1 hexadecimal you'd do:

// Calculate the hexadecimal HMAC SHA1 of requestDate using sKey                
key := []byte(c.SKey)                                                           
h := hmac.New(sha1.New, key)                                                    
h.Write([]byte(requestDate))                                                    
hmacString := hex.EncodeToString(h.Sum(nil))

(from https://github.com/soniah/dnsmadeeasy)