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Base64sha256

base64sha256 Function

base64sha256 computes the SHA256 hash of a given string and encodes it with Base64. This is not equivalent to base64encode(sha256("test")) since sha256() returns hexadecimal representation.

The given string is first encoded as UTF-8 and then the SHA256 algorithm is applied as defined in RFC 4634 (opens in a new tab). The raw hash is then encoded with Base64 before returning. OpenTofu uses the "standard" Base64 alphabet as defined in RFC 4648 section 4 (opens in a new tab).

Examples

> base64sha256("hello world")
uU0nuZNNPgilLlLX2n2r+sSE7+N6U4DukIj3rOLvzek=

Related Functions

  • filebase64sha256 calculates the same hash from the contents of a file rather than from a string value.
  • sha256 calculates the same hash but returns the result in a more-verbose hexadecimal encoding.
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