love.data.hash

Available since LÖVE 11.0
This function is not supported in earlier versions.

Compute the message digest of a string using a specified hash algorithm.

There's bug in version, up to 11.2 which gives wrong result for very-specific input length (112 + 128n for SHA512 and SHA384, 56 + 64n for other hash functions).

Function

Synopsis

rawdigest = love.data.hash( hashFunction, string )

Arguments

HashFunction hashFunction

Hash algorithm to use.

string string

String to hash.

Returns

string rawdigest

Raw message digest string.

Function

Synopsis

rawdigest = love.data.hash( hashFunction, data )

Arguments

HashFunction hashFunction

Hash algorithm to use.

Data data

Data to hash.

Returns

string rawdigest

Raw message digest string.

Notes

To return the hex string representation of the hash, use love.data.encode

hexDigestString = love.data.encode("string", "hex", love.data.hash(algo, data))

See Also

• love.data
• love.data.encode
• HashFunction