Hello,

We are facing problems with the translation of hex to binary via open ssl.

When we use the qsh command

> echo "testmessage" | openssl dgst -binary -sha256

then there is no result.

When we use the command without the binary option)

> echo "testmessage" | openssl dgst -sha256  

then we get a response. So the conversion to binary does not work. That conversion is needed for the call of an external Api.

We are on OS 7.5, we use version 1.1.1. N of open ssl.

Anyone knows what we can do to make it work?

On another system (also on OS 7.5) it does work! 

Thanks for any suggestions.

Ed

"Doctor, it hurts when I do this."
"Don't do that!"

Your example works in PASE.

$ echo "testmessage" | openssl dgst -binary -sha256
4}���~FY���O�~bj�4\n�Z�&\�
$ echo "testmessage" | openssl dgst -sha256  
SHA2-256(stdin)= 34070729087df0bb18ae8e7e4659a4f58e4fe57e626a8e345c6ec85aae265cf0

Stay away from QSH.

If you have to call PASE from a CL or other ILE program, use @Richard Schoen's open source QshOni.

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Jack Woehr
IBM Champion 2021 - 2023
IBM Qiskit Advocate
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