... you should try this out in your terminal and look at the beginning of the output: $ echo 1fccaf3d | xxd -r -p | openssl dgst -sha256 -binary | openssl enc -base64 :-) P.S. A friend of mine came up with a shell script to do this. Regards Stefan -- my 'hidden' service gopherhole: gopher://iria2xobffovwr6h.onion