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You need to quickly compute hashes from Strings (for example in order to safely store passwords into a database) ?

Well, just have a look a my project named hashutils

It simply provides one utiliy class that exposes simple methods to compute hashes from Strings using the following algorithms :

• MD5
• sha1
• sha256
• sha512

downlads

hashutils is hosted in our Maven2 repository.

You can download

• the library itself
• source code as a jar archive
• javadoc as a jar archive

Simply head you way there and help yourself.