github.com/anth0d/nomad@v0.0.0-20221214183521-ae3a0a2cad06/website/content/docs/job-specification/hcl2/functions/crypto/sha512.mdx (about) 1 --- 2 layout: docs 3 page_title: sha512 - Functions - Configuration Language 4 description: |- 5 The sha512 function computes the SHA512 hash of a given string and encodes it 6 with hexadecimal digits. 7 --- 8 9 # `sha512` Function 10 11 `sha512` computes the SHA512 hash of a given string and encodes it with 12 hexadecimal digits. 13 14 The given string is first encoded as UTF-8 and then the SHA512 algorithm is applied 15 as defined in [RFC 4634](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4634). The raw hash is 16 then encoded to lowercase hexadecimal digits before returning. 17 18 ## Examples 19 20 ```shell-session 21 > sha512("hello world") 22 309ecc489c12d6eb4cc40f50c902f2b4d0ed77ee511a7c7a9bcd3ca86d4cd86f989dd35bc5ff499670da34255b45b0cfd830e81f605dcf7dc5542e93ae9cd76f 23 ```