github.com/iaas-resource-provision/iaas-rpc@v1.0.7-0.20211021023331-ed21f798c408/website/docs/language/functions/filesha512.html.md (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "language" 3 page_title: "filesha512 - Functions - Configuration Language" 4 sidebar_current: "docs-funcs-crypto-filesha512" 5 description: |- 6 The filesha512 function computes the SHA512 hash of the contents of 7 a given file and encodes it as hex. 8 --- 9 10 # `filesha512` Function 11 12 `filesha512` is a variant of [`sha512`](./sha512.html) 13 that hashes the contents of a given file rather than a literal string. 14 15 This is similar to `sha512(file(filename))`, but 16 because [`file`](./file.html) accepts only UTF-8 text it cannot be used to 17 create hashes for binary files.