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Is behavior of SHA-1 algorithm defined for Unicode strings? I do realize that SHA-1 itself does not care about the content of the string, however,
it seems to me that in order to pass standard tests for SHA-1, the input string should be encoded with UTF-8.
SHA-1 is based on bytes; it doesn’t care about the structure of the data. If you give it a bunch of bytes that consists of Unicode strings, you’ll get a result. Keep in mind that the block size is 512 bits, so smaller amounts of data may cause security issues.