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Re: test vectors for HMAC-SHA-1 - Test Data and Bad News



In message <01BC1429.F844BBC0@localhost>, Edward Russell writes:
> 
> BSAFE SHA:
> 4B 3A ED 5F 9F E4 01 59 B4 99 53 6F B8 A1 0C DF 3B C6 2B 4C 
> 
> CYLINK SHA:
> 4C 2B C6 3B DF 0C A1 B8 6F 53 99 B4 59 01 E4 9F 5F ED 3A 4B 

I've seen this before. There are two different representations of hash codes
floating around; "big endian" and "little endian". Note that the above
hashes are identical with the *bytes* listed in the opposite order.

I couldn't tell you which one is 'correct' though :-)

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