hash-string

Hash a string.

hash-string <string> to [ define ] <result>

hash-string produces SHA256 hash of <string> and stores the result into <result> which can be created with optional "define". The result is null-terminated and always 64 bytes in length.

Hashing is commonly used in login security modules - passwords are often hashed, and only the hash is kept. This way, plain password is never kept and never encrypted either - only one-way derivative of it is kept.

String "hash" will have hashed value of the given string, an example of which might look like "e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855":

hash-string "hello world" to define hash

Encryption ( decrypt-data   encrypt-data   hash-string   random-string  )  SEE ALL (documentation)