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

You could use the System.Security.Cryptography.SHA512 class

MSDN on SHA512

Here is an example, straigt from the MSDN

byte[] data = new byte[DATA_SIZE];
byte[] result;
SHA512 shaM = new SHA512Managed();
result = shaM.ComputeHash(data);