Hashing

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Please note that though SHA1 is implemented, we HIGHLY discourage anyone trying to use this. This is due to a collision having been found. You can read more about this here.

NetShield offers SHA1, SHA256, and SHA512 hashing functionality. The process of hashing is the same for all of the hash types, so we’ll explain it with SHA256.

To get started, create the node for the type of hash you’d like to use, and enter some text to hash. Now connect the return value to something like a print statement, and test it out! See the below snippet for the node to generate a hash of the word “password”. Please note that we recommend hashing/checking passwords on your server using a salted hash, and not locally.