Hashing text using Crypto.Hash or something similar

General
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Hello Everyone,

I’m trying to create a method called generateHashedPassword() that accepts a string and returns the SHA512 hash of that string. For some reason. the compiler is throwing a syntax error no matter what I try. This is the code I have:

Dim hashedPassword as String

hashedPassword = Crypto.SHA512(password)
return hashedPassword

That throws an error. So I try this:

hashedPassword = str(Crypto.SHA512(password))
return hashedPassword

and it still throws an error.

The example in the docs shows that this might work:

Dim hashedPassword as String
hashedPassword = Crypto.Hash(password, Crypto.Algorithm.SHA512)
return hashedPassword

Doesn’t look like that works. So, I’m stuck… How the heck do I actually hash text using the Crypto API?

Thanks!
Dave

2

What error are you getting?

3

When I do

hashedPassword = Crypto.SHA512(password)

I’m told the password doesn’t exist even though I am indeed specifying password As String in the input parameters for the method.

When I try

Function generatePasswordHash(password) As String
// Return the SHA512 hash of the users password.

Dim hashedPassword as String

hashedPassword = Crypto.HashAlgorithms.SHA512(password)

End Function

I get told that the item doesn’t exist but with the Crypto.HashAlgorithm part highlighted.

4

If this is how the method is declared, then this is the error. You must specify the type as well as the name of the parameter:

Function generatePasswordHash(password AS STRING) As String