HMAC SHA1 Signature in Java

Question

I am trying to interface with a TransUnion web service and I need to provide a HMAC-SHA1 signature to access it.

This example is in the TransUnion documentation:

Answer 1

One thing I noticed is that the hyphens are not normal hyphens. If you copy and paste them, they are not in the ASCII character set. All I can say for sure is that the hash length appears correct. The funny thing is, I couldn't get your code to produce the correct answer, even after putting the correct hyphens in. But no matter. It solved the problem. Huzzah!