How to hash some String with SHA-256 in Java?

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SHA-256 isn’t an “encoding” – it’s a one-way hash.

You’d basically convert the string into bytes (e.g. using text.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)) and then hash the bytes. Note that the result of the hash would also be arbitrary binary data, and if you want to represent that in a string, you should use base64 or hex… don’t try to use the String(byte[], String) constructor.

e.g.

MessageDigest digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-256");
byte[] hash = digest.digest(text.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));

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