Re: sha256sum and (new BigInteger(1, MD.digest())).toString(16) not listing exactly the same ...

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:11:22 -0500
Message-ID:
<hh8m2c$etj$1@news.albasani.net>
Albretch Mueller wrote:

// __ http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0596.html

The simple way
public static String getHexString(byte[] b) throws Exception {
  String result = "";
  for (int i=0; i < b.length; i++) {
    result +=
          Integer.toString( ( b[i] & 0xff ) + 0x100, 16).substring
( 1 );
  }
  return result;
}

 A faster way
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

public class StringUtils {

  static final byte[] HEX_CHAR_TABLE = {
    (byte)'0', (byte)'1', (byte)'2', (byte)'3',
    (byte)'4', (byte)'5', (byte)'6', (byte)'7',
    (byte)'8', (byte)'9', (byte)'a', (byte)'b',
    (byte)'c', (byte)'d', (byte)'e', (byte)'f'
  };

  public static String getHexString(byte[] raw)
    throws UnsupportedEncodingException
  {
    byte[] hex = new byte[2 * raw.length];
    int index = 0;

    for (byte b : raw) {
      int v = b & 0xFF;
      hex[index++] = HEX_CHAR_TABLE[v >>> 4];
      hex[index++] = HEX_CHAR_TABLE[v & 0xF];
    }
    return new String(hex, "ASCII");
  }

// ...

}


You can avoid encoding and some obfuscation by making the table 'char []' and
using 'StringBuilder hex' instead of a 'byte[]', otherwise the same algorithm.
  Or the table can be "0123456789ABCDEF" and the StringBuilder can append
charAt()s. No more specious exception, either.

  static final String HEXES = "0123456789ABCDEF";
  public static String getHex( byte [] raw )
  {
    if ( raw == null ) // or could just let throw NPE
    {
      return null;
    }
    final StringBuilder hex = new StringBuilder( 2 * raw.length );
    for ( final byte b : raw )
    {
      hex.append( HEXES.charAt( (b & 0xF0) >> 4 )
         .append( HEXES.charAt( (b & 0x0F) );
    }
    return hex.toString();
  }

--
Lew

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