08 December 2012

SHA-1 with Typed Arrays

There are already SHA-1 implementations for JavaScript, but all the ones I found use strings as input. This is fine for generating hashes from small amounts of data, but not so great for large binary files. So I've created a SHA-1 library that optionally accepts ArrayBuffer objects.


Note that this will not work on browsers that do not support Typed Arrays.

I ran some tests and found that in Chrome it takes less than half a second to hash 10Mb of data.

Hope someone finds this useful! (At the very least, I will.)

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