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»sha512 Function

sha512 computes the SHA512 hash of a given string and encodes it with hexadecimal digits.

The given string is first encoded as UTF-8 and then the SHA512 algorithm is applied as defined in RFC 4634. The raw hash is then encoded to lowercase hexadecimal digits before returning.

»Examples

> sha512("hello world")
309ecc489c12d6eb4cc40f50c902f2b4d0ed77ee511a7c7a9bcd3ca86d4cd86f989dd35bc5ff499670da34255b45b0cfd830e81f605dcf7dc5542e93ae9cd76f

> sha512("hello world")
309ecc489c12d6eb4cc40f50c902f2b4d0ed77ee511a7c7a9bcd3ca86d4cd86f989dd35bc5ff499670da34255b45b0cfd830e81f605dcf7dc5542e93ae9cd76f
  • filesha512 calculates the same hash from the contents of a file rather than from a string value.
  • base64sha512 calculates the same hash but returns the result in a more-compact Base64 encoding.