github.com/hugorut/terraform@v1.1.3/website/docs/language/functions/sha512.mdx (about) 1 --- 2 page_title: sha512 - Functions - Configuration Language 3 description: |- 4 The sha512 function computes the SHA512 hash of a given string and encodes it 5 with hexadecimal digits. 6 --- 7 8 # `sha512` Function 9 10 `sha512` computes the SHA512 hash of a given string and encodes it with 11 hexadecimal digits. 12 13 The given string is first encoded as UTF-8 and then the SHA512 algorithm is applied 14 as defined in [RFC 4634](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4634). The raw hash is 15 then encoded to lowercase hexadecimal digits before returning. 16 17 ## Examples 18 19 ``` 20 > sha512("hello world") 21 309ecc489c12d6eb4cc40f50c902f2b4d0ed77ee511a7c7a9bcd3ca86d4cd86f989dd35bc5ff499670da34255b45b0cfd830e81f605dcf7dc5542e93ae9cd76f 22 ``` 23 24 ## Related Functions 25 26 * [`filesha512`](/language/functions/filesha512) calculates the same hash from 27 the contents of a file rather than from a string value. 28 * [`base64sha512`](/language/functions/base64sha512) calculates the same hash but returns 29 the result in a more-compact Base64 encoding.