<function name="SHA256" parent="util" type="libraryfunc"> <description>Generates the [SHA-256 hash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2) of the specified string.</description> <description>Generates the [SHA-256 hash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2) of the specified string. This is unique and will never return the same hash for a different string unlike <page>util.CRC</page> or <page>util.MD5</page> which are both vulnerable to duplicate returns.</description> <realm>Shared</realm> <added>2021.07.01</added> <args> <arg name="stringToHash" type="string">The string to calculate the SHA-256 hash of.</arg> </args> <rets> <ret name="" type="string">The SHA-256 hash of the string in hexadecimal form.</ret> </rets> </function></function>⤶ ⤶ <example>⤶ <description>Prints out an example of how SHA-256 hashes work.</description>⤶ <code>⤶ local a, b = util.SHA256("Hello"), util.SHA256("World")⤶ print(a == b)⤶ print(a, b)⤶ print(a == util.SHA256("Hello"))⤶ </code>⤶ <output>⤶ ```⤶ false⤶ 185f8db32271fe25f561a6fc938b2e264306ec304eda518007d1764826381969⤶ 78ae647dc5544d227130a0682a51e30bc7777fbb6d8a8f17007463a3ecd1d524⤶ true⤶ ```⤶ </output>⤶ </example>