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Hashlib is a Python module that implements a common interface to many different secure hash and message digest algorithms.

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Difference in SHA512 between python hashlib and sha512sum tool

I am getting different message digests from the linux 'sha512sum' tool and the python hashlib library. Here is what I get on my Ubuntu 8.10: $ echo test |…
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Installing hashLib gives SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'

I needed a simple hash function for passwords and thought I could use hashlib. PyCharm suggested to install it by running pip install hashLib. But now PyCharm is complaining about a syntax error in the library: Collecting hashLib Using cached…
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Invalid hash, timestamp, and key combination in Marvel API Call

I'm trying to form a Marvel API Call. Here's a link on authorization: https://developer.marvel.com/documentation/authorization I'm attempting to create a server-side application, so according to the link above, I need a timestamp, apikey, and hash…
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Compare result from hexdigest() to a string

I've got a generated MD5-hash, which I would like to compare to another MD5-hash from a string. The statement below is false, even though they look the same when you print them and should be true. hashlib.md5("foo").hexdigest() ==…
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Convert unique numbers to md5 hash using pandas

Good morning, All. I want to convert my social security numbers to a md5 hash hex number. The outcome should be a unique md5 hash hex number for each social security number. My data format is as follows: ob =…
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HMAC signing requests in Python

I'm trying to create an HMAC-SHA512 signed request for an API call in Python 3.4 using the requests library. I'm trying to follow docs, but am hitting this error: AttributeError: '_hashlib.HASH' object has no attribute 'new' Here's some code. It's…
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hashlib / md5. Compatibility with python 2.4

python 2.6 reports that the md5 module is obsolete and hashlib should be used. If I change import md5 to import hashlib I will solve for python 2.5 and python 2.6, but not for python 2.4, which has no hashlib module (leading to a ImportError, which…
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SHA1 hash differ between openssl and hashlib/pycrypto

Why does the hash from using openssl differ from the ones I get in python? $ echo "Lorem ipsum" | openssl dgst -sha1 -hex (stdin)= d0c05753484098c61e86f402a2875e68992b5ca3 $ python >>> from hashlib import sha1 >>> sha("Lorem…
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Determine whether any files have been added, removed, or modified in a directory

I'm trying to write a Python script that will get the md5sum of all files in a directory (in Linux). Which I believe I have done in the code below. I want to be able to run this to make sure no files within the directory have changed, and no…
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How can i get sha3-512 hash in C#?

exaple, string "test" in https://md5calc.com/hash/sha3-512/test gives me "9ece086e9bac491fac5c1d1046ca11d737b92a2b2ebd93f005d7b710110c0a678288166e7fbe796883a4f2e9b3ca9f484f521d0ce464345cc1aec96779149c14" but using HashLib; // from…
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Convert integer to a random but deterministically repeatable choice

How do I convert an unsigned integer (representing a user ID) to a random looking but actually a deterministically repeatable choice? The choice must be selected with equal probability (irrespective of the distribution of the the input integers).…
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Python: How to create a 16 character long digest using hashlib.md5 algorithm?

Php's md5 function takes an optional second argument which, if true, returns a smaller hash of length 16 instead of the normal 32 character long hash. How can we do the same using python's hashlib.md5.
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Compare md5 hashes of two files in python

I want to compare hashes of two files. But no matter if files are different or not, even with different hashes comparison results True Here is the code: import hashlib hasher1 = hashlib.md5() afile1 = open('canvas.png', 'rb') buf1 =…
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SHA 512 crypt output written with Python code is different from mkpasswd

Running mkpasswd -m sha-512 -S salt1234 password results in the following: $6$salt1234$Zr07alHmuONZlfKILiGKKULQZaBG6Qmf5smHCNH35KnciTapZ7dItwaCv5SKZ1xH9ydG59SCgkdtsTqVWGhk81 I have this snippet of Python code that I thought would output the same,…
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Python SHA1 Integer

I did two SHA1 in C code, one is for a string, and another is for a integer, and get different result. SHA_init(&ctx); SHA_update(&ctx, "1234", 4); sha = SHA_final(&ctx); unsigned n = 1234; SHA_init(&ctx); SHA_update(&ctx, &n, sizeof(n)); sha =…
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