From: "Zwet van der, PH (Pim)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

P.H.Zwet> I'm using the datastring "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" in a
P.H.Zwet> file called data1 as input for the folowing command:
P.H.Zwet> 
P.H.Zwet> > cat data1 | openssl sha1 -sha1
P.H.Zwet> 
P.H.Zwet> This results in the folowing output:
P.H.Zwet> 
P.H.Zwet> > 8c723a0fa70b111017b4a6f06afe1c0dbcec14e3

Check (with 'od -c', for example) if there's a \n at the end of that
file.  In that case, you have digested "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\n"
rather than "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz".  This is quite a common
mistake.

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