SHA1-DIGEST function

[dwhite]

The SHA1-Digest function has the following definition:

Hashes the specified data using the United States Government Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-1), and returns a 20-byte binary message digest value as a RAW value.

Yet when I was looking up the definition of SHA-1 on Wiki I (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1) it says that the digest sizes are 160 bits.

Granted Wiki isn't always correct and I may not be understanding what each is saying but am I correct in reading that Progress SHA1 function does not return a message in the right bit size that other languages do?

 

[TomBascom]

One byte = 8 bits.

Twenty bytes = 160 bits.

 

[dwhite]

Yeah, I probably should have figured that out on my own. I would claim I read it too fast but... Thanks!

 

[Cringer]

I prefer saying it's 40 nibbles. Sounds much more appetising.