AIX

Hello Guys,

I was trying to have an SHA256 encryption which further be encrypted into base 64 using AIX unix command shasum -a 256.

What I found in this is my output is different than a website: "online-convert[dot]com"

Actually conversion from website is exactly matching my requirements but same when I am trying to achieve using AIX Unix commands unable to get matching result.

Can anyone help to resolve this.

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I suspect, but can't prove, that the ones you're hashing (not encrypting -- it's not reversible) in UNIX have linefeeds and the ones from the website do not.

There is zero point obfuscating a sha hash, don't bother. You could try salting it instead.

Thanks Corona,

I was getting the output but not exactly matching.

I tried with "echo -n "foobar" | shasum -a 256" Command.

the Output HEX was not matching with the HEX in online website.

My ultimate goal is to achieve the exact output is in the Online converting website.

Sorry for less details but I cannot provide all tried versions. For test you can try encryption on "Foobar" keyword.

I repeat, this is not encryption. You can't turn it back.

I also repeat, your shell command puts a newline on the end of the input, while the web command does not. (It's also putting -n in the string!)

Try:

Code:

printf "%s" "string" | shasum -a 256

This will avoid adding a newline to the end of the string.

If you'd like to receive help, first of all you have to write what you expect to see. Then what you did and which output you got. Otherwise it is like reading the tea leaves.