How can I compute a SHA-2 (ideally SHA 256 or SHA 512) hash in iOS?

Question

The Security services API doesn\'t appear to allow me to compute a hash directly. There are plenty of public domain and liberally licensed versions available, but I\'d rathe

Answer 1

I cleaned up https://stackoverflow.com/a/13199111/1254812 a bit and structured it as an NSString extension

@interface NSString (SHA2HEX)

/*
 Get the SHA2 (256 bit) digest as a hex string.
 */
@property (nonatomic, readonly) NSString* sha2hex;
@end

@implementation NSString (SHA2HEX)

- (NSString*)sha2hex
{
    NSData *data = [self dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

    if (data.length > UINT32_MAX)
        return nil;

    uint8_t digest[CC_SHA256_DIGEST_LENGTH];
    CC_SHA256(data.bytes, (CC_LONG)data.length, digest);

    const int hexlen = CC_SHA256_DIGEST_LENGTH * 2;
    NSMutableString *hexstr = [NSMutableString stringWithCapacity:hexlen];

    for (int i = 0; i < CC_SHA256_DIGEST_LENGTH; i++) {
        [hexstr appendFormat:@"%02x", digest[i]];
    }

    return hexstr;
}

@end