This crate is used to generate a sha-256 hash given a string, simply bring the crate into scope and use the function hash_256 that takes a String as an input.
The return type of the function is a Result< [u32,8] , String>
pub mod spacesha256;
let compressed_message = spacesha256::hash_256(String::from("Hello, World!")).expect("Failed to hash");
println!("{:x}{:x}{:x}{:x}{:x}{:x}{:x}{:x}", compressed_message[0],compressed_message[1],compressed_message[2],compressed_message[3],compressed_message[4],compressed_message[5],compressed_message[6],compressed_message[7]);The bitwise operations in SHA-256 algorithm might result in an overflow , however Rust's compiler panics on overflow in Debug mode. So I've appended overflow-checks = false to Cargo.toml . A possible improvment to make is to handle possible overflows during hashing.