kotlin sha256

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Step 1: Import the necessary libraries To calculate the SHA-256 hash in Kotlin, you need to import the MessageDigest class from the java.security package.

import java.security.MessageDigest

Step 2: Create a function to calculate the hash Create a function that takes a string as input and returns the SHA-256 hash of that string.

fun calculateSHA256(input: String): String {
    // ...
}

Step 3: Get an instance of the SHA-256 algorithm Inside the calculateSHA256 function, get an instance of the SHA-256 algorithm using the getInstance method of the MessageDigest class.

val md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-256")

Step 4: Convert the input string to bytes Convert the input string to bytes using the toByteArray method.

val inputBytes = input.toByteArray()

Step 5: Update the message digest with the input bytes Update the message digest with the input bytes using the update method of the MessageDigest class.

md.update(inputBytes)

Step 6: Calculate the hash Calculate the hash by calling the digest method of the MessageDigest class. This will return a byte array.

val hashBytes = md.digest()

Step 7: Convert the byte array to a hexadecimal string Convert the byte array to a hexadecimal string using the StringBuilder class and the format method.

val hexString = StringBuilder()

for (byte in hashBytes) {
    val hex = String.format("%02x", byte)
    hexString.append(hex)
}

Step 8: Return the hexadecimal string Return the hexadecimal string as the result of the calculateSHA256 function.

return hexString.toString()

That's it! Now you have a function calculateSHA256 that takes a string as input and returns the SHA-256 hash of that string in Kotlin.