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Asked: 2026-05-15T16:10:07+00:00

I’ve a big problem. I using this C# function to encode my message: byte[]

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I’ve a big problem.
I using this C# function to encode my message:

byte[] buffer = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(file_or_text);
SHA1CryptoServiceProvider cryptoTransformSHA1 = new SHA1CryptoServiceProvider();
String hashText = BitConverter.ToString(cryptoTransformSHA1.ComputeHash(buffer)).Replace("-", "");

On java side, I use this snippet:

MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1");
byte[] sha1hash = new byte[40];
md.update(text.getBytes("iso-8859-1"), 0, text.length());
sha1hash = md.digest();

My message is: Block|Notes|Text !£$%&/()=?^€><{}ç°§;:_-.,@#ùàòè+

I have this result:

(C#)   8EDC7F756BCECDB99B045FA3DEA2E36AA0BF0875
(Java) 2a566428826539365bb2fe2197da91395c2b1b72

Can you help me please??
Thanks…

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  1. Editorial Team

    My guess is you seem to be comparing ASCII bytes to Latin1 bytes. Try switching

    md.update(text.getBytes("iso-8859-1"), 0, text.length());

    to this

    md.update(text.getBytes("ISO646-US"), 0, text.length());

    That might solve your problem.

    (Or switch C# to use Latin1)

    What is happening in your program your GetBytes method is returning different values for the same characters depending on encoding, so our nifty SHA1 hash algorithm is getting passed different parameters resulting in different return values.

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