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SHA-256 hash

ID sha256hash

DatatypeNot PIIidentifier

Digest of the SHA-256 hash function (SHA-2 family, 256 bits), widely used for file checksums, content addressing and digital signatures. It is written as 64 hexadecimal digits. Other 256-bit digests (SHA3-256, Keccak-256, BLAKE2b-256, BLAKE3 and Streebog-256) have the same length, so the value alone does not tell them apart: use the field name or context.

Parent datatype
Hash by field name (generic) hash
Categories
Cryptographic identifiers, Software development
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Common to most languages
AutoType benchmark
sha256
FTA
HASH.SHA256_HEX
Schema.org
sha256
Former IDs
sha256
Quality
95/100 · missing: translation
Metacrafter rules
3 rules (1 by field name, 2 by value)
Supported by tools
Auto-Type, FTA (Fast Text Analysis), metacrafter, metacrafterpro

Regular expression

^[0-9a-fA-F]{64}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855SHA-256 hash of the empty string
ba7816bf8f01cfea414140de5dae2223b00361a396177a9cb410ff61f20015adSHA-256 hash of the string 'abc'
e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b85 invalidone hex digit short (63 instead of 64)

Child datatypes

IDNameCategoriesCountriesDescription
authentihash authentihash software global authentihash is a sha256 hash used by Microsoft to verify that the relevant sections of a PE image file have not been altered. This...
bitcoin_txid Bitcoin transaction ID (txid) draft cryptocurrency global Identifier of a Bitcoin transaction: the double SHA-256 hash of the serialized transaction without its witness data, written as 64...

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