How can I create an SHA512 digest string in Java using bouncy castle?

Question

This unit test is failing:

    public void testDigest() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException {
    String hashExpected = \"150a14ed5bea6cc731cf86c41566ac427a8db48         


        

Answer 1

Yes, you need to turn your byte array into a hex string. :-) Look into Apache Commons Codec, especially the Hex class.