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How Mathematica hash functiondoes Hash calculate hash for strings?

I have this code

Hash["a","SHA"]
Hash[ToCharacterCode["a"],"SHA"]

and I was expecting to get the same result, but somehow it is different.

My question is: how does Mathematica calculates hashcalculate hashing for strings? From common sense it should convert a string to integer and calculate it for some integer. If so, how does it convert the string to integer?

How Mathematica hash function calculate hash for strings?

I have this code

Hash["a","SHA"]
Hash[ToCharacterCode["a"],"SHA"]

and I was expecting to get the same result, but somehow it is different.

My question is how Mathematica calculates hash for strings? From common sense it should convert a string to integer and calculate it for some integer. If so, how does it convert the string to integer?

How does Hash calculate hash for strings?

I have this code

Hash["a","SHA"]
Hash[ToCharacterCode["a"],"SHA"]

and I was expecting to get the same result, but somehow it is different.

My question is: how does Mathematica calculate hashing for strings? From common sense it should convert a string to integer and calculate it for some integer. If so, how does it convert the string to integer?

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How Mathematica hash function calculate hash for strings?

I have this code

Hash["a","SHA"]
Hash[ToCharacterCode["a"],"SHA"]

and I was expecting to get the same result, but somehow it is different.

My question is how Mathematica calculates hash for strings? From common sense it should convert a string to integer and calculate it for some integer. If so, how does it convert the string to integer?