HMAC-SHA1 Qt

hamcsha1.cpp

// from http://qt-project.org/wiki/HMAC-SHA1

QString hmacSha1(QByteArray key, QByteArray baseString)
{
    int blockSize = 64; // HMAC-SHA-1 block size, defined in SHA-1 standard
    if (key.length() > blockSize) { // if key is longer than block size (64), reduce key length with SHA-1 compression
        key = QCryptographicHash::hash(key, QCryptographicHash::Sha1);
    }
 
    QByteArray innerPadding(blockSize, char(0x36)); // initialize inner padding with char "6"
    QByteArray outerPadding(blockSize, char(0x5c)); // initialize outer padding with char "\"
    // ascii characters 0x36 ("6") and 0x5c ("\") are selected because they have large
    // Hamming distance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_distance)
 
    for (int i = 0; i < key.length(); i++) {
        innerPadding[i] = innerPadding[i] ^ key.at(i); // XOR operation between every byte in key and innerpadding, of key length
        outerPadding[i] = outerPadding[i] ^ key.at(i); // XOR operation between every byte in key and outerpadding, of key length
    }
 
    // result = hash ( outerPadding CONCAT hash ( innerPadding CONCAT baseString ) ).toBase64
    QByteArray total = outerPadding;
    QByteArray part = innerPadding;
    part.append(baseString);
    total.append(QCryptographicHash::hash(part, QCryptographicHash::Sha1));
    QByteArray hashed = QCryptographicHash::hash(total, QCryptographicHash::Sha1);
    return hashed.toBase64();
}

Thanks Dhi 👍

It doesn't work as I want... It doesn't return same string that : http://www.freeformatter.com/hmac-generator.html#ad-output

dridk, it returning a base64 hash, you need to change the last line to hashed.toHex();