diff --git a/aws/resource_aws_iam_server_certificate.go b/aws/resource_aws_iam_server_certificate.go
index 658bc181f9b..476f16ac88b 100644
--- a/aws/resource_aws_iam_server_certificate.go
+++ b/aws/resource_aws_iam_server_certificate.go
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 package aws
 
 import (
-	"crypto/sha1"
-	"encoding/hex"
 	"fmt"
 	"log"
 	"regexp"
@@ -230,20 +228,6 @@ func normalizeCert(cert interface{}) string {
 		return ""
 	}
 
-	cleanVal := sha1.Sum(stripCR([]byte(strings.TrimSpace(rawCert))))
-	return hex.EncodeToString(cleanVal[:])
-}
-
-// strip CRs from raw literals. Lifted from go/scanner/scanner.go
-// See https://github.com/golang/go/blob/release-branch.go1.6/src/go/scanner/scanner.go#L479
-func stripCR(b []byte) []byte {
-	c := make([]byte, len(b))
-	i := 0
-	for _, ch := range b {
-		if ch != '\r' {
-			c[i] = ch
-			i++
-		}
-	}
-	return c[:i]
+	cleanVal := strings.TrimSpace(rawCert)
+	return cleanVal
 }