How can I SHA512 a string in C#?

Question

I am trying to write a function to take a string and sha512 it like so?

public string SHA512(string input)
{
     string hash;

     ~magic~

     return has         


        

Answer 1

512/8 = 64, so 64 is indeed the correct size. Perhaps you want to convert it to hexadecimal after the SHA512 algorithm.

See also: How do you convert Byte Array to Hexadecimal String, and vice versa?