Why a different SHA-1 for the same file under windows or linux?
- by Fabio Vitale
Why on the same machine computing the SHA-1 hash of the same file produces two completely different SHA-1 hashes in windows and inside a msysgit Git bash?
Doesn't the SHA-1 algorithm was intended to produce the same hash for the same file in all OSes?
On windows (with HashCheck):
File hello.txt
22596363b3de40b06f981fb85d82312e8c0ed511
Inside a…