Implementing SHA and MD5 hashes together

In this section, we will see how SHA and MD5 hash work together.

Getting ready

For the following script, we will only require the hashlib module.

How to do it…

We are going to tie everything previously done together to form one big script. This will output three versions of SHA hashes and also an MD5 hash, so the user can choose which one they would like to use:

import hashlib

message = raw_input("Enter the string you would like to hash: ")

md5 = hashlib.md5(message)
md5 = md5.hexdigest()

sha1 = hashlib.sha1(message)
sha1 = sha1.hexdigest()

sha256 = hashlib.sha256(message)
sha256 = sha256.hexdigest()

sha512 = hashlib.sha512(message)
sha512 = sha512.hexdigest()

print "MD5 Hash =", md5
print "SHA1 Hash =", sha1
print "SHA256 Hash =", sha256
print "SHA512 Hash =", sha512
print "End of list."

How it works…

Once again, after importing the correct module into this script, we need to receive the user input that we wish to turn into an encoded string:

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