1. You get what you pay for. My $10 a year host was hacked. I think the server people figured it was easier to reformat the server than try to save anything.
2. Back up your stuff every now and then. I honestly backed up using Wordpress’ export feature on June 29th. I don’t know if it hit a limit or what but it didn’t backup anything past 2008.

This is a painful lesson but I should know better. I will hopefully have my code examples for MD5/SHA1 uploaded soon.

Jason Molzen contacted me this weekend asking for help generating MD5 hashes in LotusScript. I had previously posted a HMAC SHA1 library that was an amalgamation of two developers’ (Paul Johnston and Julian Robichaux) code. Paul did not mind me converting the SHA1 code so I spent a lot of time translating the MD5 script he created.

With Jason’s help I converted Paul Johnston’s MD5 script but I wasn’t quite happy when I finished the library. The code was written as functions and it was hard to figure out what to use to create each hash.

I finally ended up with three script libraries. Click on the links to download the “lss” library files.

• CoreHashLibrary – Contains one class called HashHelper (I loved using the word “Hash”). It contains a lot of the binary functions for processing these hashes.
• MD5 – Self explanatory. This contains two classes: a MD5 class with a New(text) constructor and a HMAC_MD5 class with a New(key,text) constructor
• SHA1 – Self explanatory. This contains two classes: a SHA1 class with a New(text) constructor and a HMAC_SHA1 class with a New(key,text) constructor

Jason sent a link to a great tool for testing these hashes: HashCalc. Previously, I had been testing the hashes with Paul Johnston’s javascript but HashCalc saved me a lot of time.