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[Fred Stutzman <fred AT metalab.unc.edu>]

Thanks!  I've posted this as well!


On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Eran Sandler wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Attached is a simple function implementation of microid in Python (after
> seeing the Java implementation I had to do something ;-) ).
>
> This sample is for Python 2.4 or so (in 2.5 the SHA API I'm using is
> deprecated, so when I'll install it I'll submit a Python 2.5 valid sample).
>
> It also contains a sample that you can run it by itself (and not include it
> in a project). Run by specifying:
> python microid.py firsturi seconduri
>
> Where firsturi is the first uri you want to encode and the second is the
> second.
>
> For example:
> python microid.py xmpp:stpeter AT jabber.org https://www.xmpp.net/
>
> This will produce (with the '======' lines):
>
> ========================================================================
> first uri          : xmpp:stpeter AT jabber.org
> second uri         : https://www.xmpp.net/
>
> microid hash value : 6196ea6709be2a4cbdf2bc0cfaeac491f2fb8921
>
> microid            :
> xmpp+https:sha1:6196ea6709be2a4cbdf2bc0cfaeac491f2fb8921
> ========================================================================
>
> For the value of the microid printed, it will try to extract the protocol
> used form the uris given in the input.
>
> This also brings me to another point. I might be wrong on this, but I double
> checked the hash values and the sample on the spec has the wrong hash
> values. The ones I've listed above is the right ones (as far as I could
> tell).
>
> So it would be good to correct the sample so that people will be able to
> verify that their sha1 hashing (at least for now) is working well.
>
> Eran

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