Question

Here I attach my code regards “SHA-1” algorithm based Java code for same input value given manually:

import java.security.MessageDigest;    
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;    
import sun.misc.BASE64Encoder;

public class NewClass {       
 public static void main(String args[]) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException        
 {       
    MessageDigest digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1");    
    System.out.println("Algorithm :"+digest.getAlgorithm());    
    digest.update("welcome".getBytes());    
    byte[] result = digest.digest();     
    hash = (new BASE64Encoder()).encode(result);     
    MessageDigest digest1 = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1");    
    digest1.update("welcome".getBytes());    
    byte[] result1 = digest1.digest();    
    System.out.println(result);    
    System.out.println(result1);    
    String hash1 = (new BASE64Encoder()).encode(result);    
    System.out.println("Digest value"+hash);    
    System.out.println("Digest value"+hash1);       
 }

}

output:

Algorithm :SHA-1

[B@42e816

[B@9304b1

Digest value wLE3/i15JFnyb/djzORFdKW1qwM=

Digest value wLE3/i15JFnyb/djzORFdKW1qwM=

The above algorithm produces the same hash code, but the intermediate values are not same. Why is that?

Answer 1

[B@42e816 is what you get when you try to print an array in Java. It just prints its memory address, not the contents. Obviously, two different arrays will have different addresses.