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When i take a hash of user input test123+ i get the following base64 result:- YaddchSU52yztwIMdtHzkg3p1oA= The results have been obtained using the online sha1 convertor

I m failing to understand how does this work? When i take just convert test123+ using sha1 i get d478f2a272d7830987e8cd1c732af606. Now when i do the base64 encoding on this input i get this result ZDQ3OGYyYTI3MmQ3ODMwOTg3ZThjZDFjNzMyYWY2MDY=

Why are two base64 conversion so different?

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You've generating the base64 encoding of the ASCII hex string, rather than the raw bytes of the hash function's output.

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  • So what you are saying the link i included above is using raw bytes to convert it into base64? – Saladin Oct 22 '12 at 16:31
  • Yes, that's the case. – Polynomial Oct 22 '12 at 16:32
  • But when i want to go back and retrieve the original string using hex decoding i don't get test123+ instead i get some garbage? I'm using 61a75d721494e76cb3b7020c76d1f3920de9d680 is this because it is using raw byes? right – Saladin Oct 22 '12 at 17:00
  • Yep. The "garbage" you see is the ASCII representation of the raw bytes produced by the hash. – Polynomial Oct 22 '12 at 17:05
  • So, this method is pretty much safe ; and beats hash recovery. – Saladin Oct 22 '12 at 17:22

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