python-cryptography_string_hash.md

title	Python String Hashing using Cryptography
keywords	sample
summary	Python based string hashing
permalink	python_cryptography_string_hash.html
folder	Python Cryptography
references	url description https://cryptography.io/en/latest/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes/ Cryptography Message digests Documentation
authors	name url Manuel Kloppenburg https://github.com/mklopp
current_reviews
last_updated	2018-09-13
tags	Python hash SHA SHA-512

Use cases

• Verifying if a string has been changed

Installation

Install cryptography with pip: pip install cryptorgraphy

Supported Python versions

• Python 2.7
• Python 3.6
• Python 3.7

Example Code for Python based hashing of a String using SHA-512, BASE64 and UTF-8 encoding

{% include_relative src/cryptoexamples/example_hash.py %}

{% include links.html %}