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I am trying to connect my system to a banks payment system. The problem is, their documentation was mostly not correct, if it wasn't a complete disaster.

In the documentation of 3D secure system, the bank asks me to fill out a html form and submit it to their system. The form should include some data AND a SHA1 hash of the data with the data. I tried many times but the bank's system returned "Hash not correct" error all the time.

After some inspection on their example C# code, I found a function they used to get hash results. The problem is function was doing some other stuff to the data rather than just hashing them. And bigger problem is I cannot find out what this piece of code is doing to the string that hashed.

public static string CreateHash(string notHashedStr)
    {
        SHA1 sha1 = new SHA1CryptoServiceProvider();
        byte[] notHashedBytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(notHashedStr);
        byte[] hashedByte = sha1.ComputeHash(notHashedBytes);
        string hashedStr = System.Convert.ToBase64String(hashedByte);

        return hashedStr;
    }

I have nearly no experience on .Net framework and also I am on a mac, so I cannot test the code easily, and MSDN is definitely not for me(I am a Ruby developer most of the time, and I know enough C). If anyone can explain what these functions do to the string to be hashed, i'll be very glad.

that hashing reminds me of OAuth

mo.
– mo.

2012-07-31 21:14:54 +00:00
Commented Jul 31, 2012 at 21:14 — mo.
– mo., Commented Jul 31, 2012 at 21:14

mo. · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-31 20:57:59Z

2

It's very simple.

Get the ASCII encoded bytes from notHashedStr.
Create a SHA1 hash from that bytes
Convert that hash in a Base64 encoded string.
return that Base64-SHA1-ASCII-String.

I never did any ruby, but it must look a bit like this.

require 'digest/sha1'
returnValue = Digest::SHA1.base64digest 'notHashedStr'

answered Jul 31, 2012 at 20:57

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Roland Mai Over a year ago

+1 base64digest is only available in ruby 1.9. You can do the same in 1.8 with: Base64.encode64(Digest::SHA1.digest('notHashedStr').

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