A cryptographic hash (sometimes called ‘digest’) is a kind of ‘signature’ for a text or a data file. SHA1 generates an almost-unique 160-bit (20-byte) signature for a text. There is a good description on Wikipedia; see below for the source code. Enter any message to check its SHA-1 hash Message abc Hash Note SHA-1 hash of ‘abc’ should be: a9993e364706816aba3e25717850c26c9cd0d89d A hash is not