[Mason] Bug? SHA1 hash behaves oddly in mason

[Neil W. <ma...@wa...>]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 01:56:53PM -0500, Neil Watson wrote:
>Please cosider this snippet:
>
># encrypts password using
># SHA-1 algorithm
>my $sha1 = Digest::SHA1->new;
>
># reset algorithm
>$sha1->hexdigest;
>
># encrypt
>$passwd = 'password';
>$salt = 1658087940;
>my $secret = $sha1->sha1_hex($passwd . $salt); 
>
>Run as part of a perl shell script the hash returned for $sercret is the
>same each time $passwd and $salt are the same.  However, when I insert
>the code into a Mason page, on the same machine, the hash returned is
>different every time even if $passwd and $salt are the same.  Does anyone
>know why this is happening?

Haven't seen any feedback to this.  Is this user error or a bug?

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