sha256

sha256

JavaScript component to compute the SHA256 of strings or bytes.

Install

Node.js/Browserify

npm install --save sha256

Note: when Node.js is detected, the Node Crypto component is used instead of re-implementing the SHA256 hash logic.

Component

component install cryptocoinjs/sha256

Bower

bower install sha256

Script

<script src="/path/to/sha256.js"></script>

Usage

There are two methods, one for computing the hash of the input, and one for double-hashing it:

sha256('hello');   // "2cf24dba5fb0a30e26e83b2ac5b9e29e1b161e5c1fa7425e73043362938b9824"
sha256.x2('hello'); // "d7914fe546b684688bb95f4f888a92dfc680603a75f23eb823658031fff766d9"

Input is either an array of bytes or a string. String are always interpreted as binary data; if you have a hex-encoded string of data to parse, first convert it to a binary string or array of bytes.

Output by default is a hexadecimal-encoded string. Other options are an array of bytes, or a binary-encoded string:

sha256('hello');   // "2cf24dba5fb0a30e26e83b2ac5b9e29e1b161e5c1fa7425e73043362938b9824" <= Hex-encoded; default
sha256('hello', { asBytes: true }); // [44,242,77,186,95,176,163,14,38,232,59,42,197,185,226,158,27,22,30,92,31,167,66,94,115,4,51,98,147,139,152,36] <= Array of bytes
sha256('hello', { asString: true }); // ",òMº_°£&è;*Źâž\§B^s3b“‹˜$" <= Binary-encoded string

Test

Unit tests are written in Mocha. To run the test suite, checkout the git repository, and from within the base folder run:

$ npm install --dev
$ ./node_modules/mocha/bin/mocha

Credits

Most of the code from CryptoJS https://code.google.com/p/crypto-js/

License

(MIT License)

Copyright 2013, JP Richardson [e-mail]