Feel free to use this generator, which uses the Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-1) to create a portable identity token called a microID. This version of the microID generator creates a string with the following pattern:
emailscheme+urlscheme:sha1:hash
where emailscheme in this case is "mailto" and the urlscheme is one of "http" or "https". The hexadecimal hash string is generated as follows:
sha-1( sha-1(emailaddress) + sha-1(URL) )
The microID can be used as an HTML element class, e.g. <p class="'microid-microID goes here">some text</p> (note the microid- prefix) , or as an HTML metadata header, e.g. <meta name="microid" content="microID goes here" />
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