Legacy encryption function

Hello everyone, I have an old Java authentication web service that I
must use in my rails development. The service takes a username and an
encrypted password. I’m having trouble reproducing the same encryption
algorithm.

Here is the Java encryption function:
public static String digest(String text)
{
MessageDigest mDigest = null;
try
{
mDigest = MessageDigest.getInstance(“SHA”);

  mDigest.update(text.toUpperCase().getBytes("UTF-8"));
} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException nsae) {
  nsae.printStackTrace();
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException uee) {
  uee.printStackTrace();
}
byte[] raw = mDigest.digest();
return new BASE64Encoder().encode(raw);

}

Here is the Ruby encryption function:

require ‘digest/sha1’
Base64.encode64(Digest::SHA1.hexdigest(‘ruby’))

Now here is the resulting String calling the Java function with the
string ‘ruby’:
“oJtN1kHfQdCCLFN7ATWgAxIH6bc=”

Here is what I get with my Ruby function for the same string:
“MThlNDBlMTQwMWVlZjY3ZTFhZTY5ZWZhYjA5YWZiNzFmODdmZmI4MQ==\n”

So, anybody knows what I’m doing wrong?

On Apr 27, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Alexandre Alex wrote:

{
return new BASE64Encoder().encode(raw);
Now here is the resulting String calling the Java function with the
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

What happens if you do this:

mDigest = MessageDigest.getInstance(“SHA-1”);

Cheers–

Charles

Charles J.
Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education
Vanderbilt University

On Apr 27, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Charles J. wrote:

Vanderbilt University
Stupid me. SHA probably is sha-1 in the Java world. :frowning:

Cheers–

Charles

Charles J.
Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education
Vanderbilt University

Charles J. wrote:

On Apr 27, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Charles J. wrote:

Vanderbilt University
Stupid me. SHA probably is sha-1 in the Java world. :frowning:

Cheers–

Charles

Charles J.
Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education
Vanderbilt University

No problem, in fact I found my problem. I have to use the digest
function instead of hexdigest…

Thanks anyway!