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This snippet calculates the SHA-1 digest of a string:

set s to "mailto:richard@cyganiak.de"
do shell script "echo -n " & quoted form of s & "|openssl sha1"
set digest to result

This is useful for calculating foaf:mbox_sha1sum values, for example.

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