Generate SHA1 Hash in Portable Class Library

Question

I\'m trying to build a portable class library that generates OAuth urls for other classes/applications to use. This class library using OAuth has to be a portable class libr

Answer 1

This worked for me when I had to achieve the same outcome. You can do this with SHA512 and others too.

using System.Security.Cryptography;

public static string HashSHA1(this string value)
{
    using (var sha = SHA1.Create())
    {
       return Convert.ToBase64String(sha.ComputeHash(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(value)));
    }
}

Code cited from: https://xamarinhelp.com/cryptography-in-xamarin-forms/