diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-security-3/pom.xml b/core-java-modules/core-java-security-3/pom.xml
index a4f60b4db5..ad9feeb36a 100644
--- a/core-java-modules/core-java-security-3/pom.xml
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-security-3/pom.xml
@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@
             <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
             <version>${jaxb-api.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+            <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+            <version>${google-guava.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-security-crypto</artifactId>
@@ -39,9 +44,10 @@
 
     <properties>
         <bouncycastle.version>1.70</bouncycastle.version>
-        <commons-codec.version>1.11</commons-codec.version>
+        <commons-codec.version>1.15</commons-codec.version>
         <jaxb-api.version>2.3.1</jaxb-api.version>
         <spring-security-crypto.version>6.0.3</spring-security-crypto.version>
+        <google-guava.version>31.0.1-jre</google-guava.version>
     </properties>
 
 </project>
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diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-security-3/src/test/java/com/baeldung/crypto/sha1/HexRepresentationSha1DigestUnitTest.java b/core-java-modules/core-java-security-3/src/test/java/com/baeldung/crypto/sha1/HexRepresentationSha1DigestUnitTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f2c346707e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-security-3/src/test/java/com/baeldung/crypto/sha1/HexRepresentationSha1DigestUnitTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+package com.baeldung.crypto.sha1;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;
+
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.security.MessageDigest;
+import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
+
+import org.apache.commons.codec.digest.DigestUtils;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import com.google.common.hash.Hashing;
+
+public class HexRepresentationSha1DigestUnitTest {
+
+    String input = "Hello, World";
+    String expectedHexValue = "907d14fb3af2b0d4f18c2d46abe8aedce17367bd";
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenMessageDigest_whenUpdatingWithData_thenDigestShouldMatchExpectedValue() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException {
+        MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1");
+        md.update(input.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+
+        StringBuilder hexString = new StringBuilder();
+        byte[] digest = md.digest();
+
+        for (byte b : digest) {
+            hexString.append(String.format("%02x", b));
+        }
+        assertEquals(expectedHexValue, hexString.toString());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenDigestUtils_whenCalculatingSHA1Hex_thenDigestShouldMatchExpectedValue() {
+        assertEquals(expectedHexValue, DigestUtils.sha1Hex(input));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenHashingLibrary_whenCalculatingSHA1Hash_thenDigestShouldMatchExpectedValue() {
+        assertEquals(expectedHexValue, Hashing.sha1().hashString(input, StandardCharsets.UTF_8).toString());
+    }
+}