Hey all, I have this java method which I need to convert:

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import sun.misc.BASE64Encoder;

public class x{
    public static String encrypt(String plaintext){
        MessageDigest md = null;

        try{
            //Set encryption type, and set text to encrypt
            md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA"); 
            md.update(plaintext.getBytes("UTF-8")); 
        } catch(Exception e) {
            return "";
        }

        //Encrypt bytes and return value
        byte raw[] = md.digest(); 
        return (new BASE64Encoder()).encode(raw); 
    }
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I managed to get the idea of what it is doing, and how I should implement it in Perl but I just can't quite manage to get the right results.

use Digest::SHA;
use utf8;
no utf8;
use MIME::Base64 qw(encode_base64 decode_base64);

        $x = "password";
        utf8::encode($x);
    
        @ascii = unpack("C*", $x);
        print "UTF-8 : ";
        foreach $val (@ascii) {
            print $val;                 
        } print "\n";

        $sha = Digest::SHA->new;
        $sha->add(@ascii);
        
        @z = unpack("C*",$sha->digest);
        print "Encrypted Bytes : ";
        foreach $val (@z) {
            print $val;                 
        } print "\n";
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Any ideas?

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