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Generating PHP SHA1 Hash in Windows Phone and Windows 8 App

If you want to generate the PHP SHA1 (sometimes called hex digest format) in windows phone or windows 8 app us the following method. private string HashString(string str) { string dataHash = string.Empty; string hashType = "SHA1"; try { HashAlgorithmProvider Algorithm = HashAlgorithmProvider.OpenAlgorithm(hashType); IBuffer vector = CryptographicBuffer.ConvertStringToBinary(str, BinaryStringEncoding.Utf8); IBuffer digest = Algorithm.HashData(vector); if (digest.Length != Algorithm.HashLength) { throw new System.InvalidOperationException("Failed"); } dataHash = CryptographicBuffer.EncodeToHexString(digest); return dataHash; } catch (Exception){} return null; }