Go by Example: SHA1 Hashes

SHA1 hashes are frequently used to compute short identities for binary or text blobs. For example, the git revision control system uses SHA1s extensively to identify versioned files and directories. Here’s how to compute SHA1 hashes in Go.
	package main
Go implements several hash functions in various `crypto/*` packages.	import "crypto/sha1" import "fmt"
	func main() { s := "sha1 this string"
The pattern for generating a hash is `sha1.New()`, `sha1.Write(bytes)`, then `sha1.Sum([]byte{})`. Here we start with a new hash.	h := sha1.New()
`Write` expects bytes. If you have a string `s`, use `[]byte(s)` to coerce it to bytes.	h.Write([]byte(s))
This gets the finalized hash result as a byte slice. The argument to `Sum` can be used to append to an existing byte slice: it usually isn’t needed.	bs := h.Sum(nil)
SHA1 values are often printed in hex, for example in git commits. Use the `%x` format verb to convert a hash results to a hex string.	fmt.Println(s) fmt.Printf("%x\n", bs) }

Running the program computes the hash and prints it in a human-readable hex format.	$ go run sha1-hashes.go sha1 this string cf23df2207d99a74fbe169e3eba035e633b65d94
You can compute other hashes using a similar pattern to the one shown above. For example, to compute MD5 hashes import `crypto/md5` and use `md5.New()`.
Note that if you need cryptographically secure hashes, you should carefully research hash strength!

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