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SHA512

An implementation of Secure Hashing Algorithm 2 (SHA-2) hashing with a 512-bit digest.

Declaration

struct SHA512

Overview

The SHA512 hash implements the HashFunction protocol for the specific case of SHA-2 hashing with a 512-bit digest (SHA512Digest). Larger digests take more space but are more secure.

You can compute the digest by calling the static hash(data:) method once. Alternatively, if the data that you want to hash is too large to fit in memory, you can compute the digest iteratively by creating a new hash instance, calling the update(data:) method repeatedly with blocks of data, and then calling the finalize() method to get the result.

Topics

Specifying the output type

Computing a hash iteratively

Inspecting hash information

See Also

Cryptographically secure hashes