Hashing a string
Using Oracle 10g R2.
I want to hash a string using SHA-1 and the documentation that comes with 10g R2 talks about using the DBMS_CRYPTO package. It apparently has a nice little Hash function where you pass it your string and the type of crypto you want to use.
Unfortunately there isn't a DBMS_CRYPTO package.
There is however a DBMS_CRYPTO_TOOLKIT package which also has a Hash function in it, but this seems to take a few more parameters including "Persona"'s etc. and there's no documentation on this package included in the Oracle documentation.
All I want to do is generate a SHA-1 hash value for a string.
Can anyone give me any pointers please.
Cheers