CRYPT::SHA256 1g 2024-03-28 laplante@plcb.ca GOWEB/CRYPT

title: “CRYPT::SHA256” version: “1g” date: “2024-03-28” author: “laplante@plcb.ca”

category: “GOWEB/CRYPT”

Name

sha256 Returns the hex value of the SHA-256 hash of the given string.

Synopsis

crypt::sha256 or sha256(string[, string…, error: variable])

Description

This function returns the hex value of the SHA-256 hash of the given string.

A cryptographic hash, also often referred to as a “digest”, “fingerprint” or “signature”, is an almost perfectly unique string of characters that is generated from a separate piece of input text.
SHA-256 generates a 256-bit (32-byte) signature.

Parameters

Examples

res={{
    sha256("test-004"); "\n";
    sha256("test-004", "test-001"); "\n";
}}.

returns

res=eb1e6a1585a7deaf4231c996453ed9ba2e62f5dd94c0220512093b575690ba5e
["eb1e6a1585a7deaf4231c996453ed9ba2e62f5dd94c0220512093b575690ba5e","b3117469a5faaa9661af2ef23951d98b56d373505dfbcc8ae4fe7fc9c1d3aaef"]
.

Author

laplante@plcb.ca

See also

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