How to hash SHA-256 in Dart

In this Dart tutorial we show you how to use the crypto library in Dart to perform SHA-256 hashing.

Install crypto package in Dart or Flutter

To use the crypto package with Dart, run the following command.

dart pub add crypto

To use the crypto package with Flutter, run the following command.

flutter pub add crypto

The package can be added to your pubspec.yaml as below.

dependencies: 
  crypto: ^3.0.1

How to hash SHA-256 in Dart

In the following Dart program, we use the crypto package to perform SHA-256 hashing which input as a string and return hexadecimal digits string as a result of hashing function.

import 'package:crypto/crypto.dart';
import 'dart:convert';

void main() {
  var dataToHash = 'toricode';

  var bytesToHash = utf8.encode(dataToHash);
  var sha256Digest = sha256.convert(bytesToHash);

  print('Data to hash: $dataToHash');
  print('SHA-256: $sha256Digest');
}
The output as below.
Data to hash: toricode
SHA-256: d194e39601b8efeb347b0dbe330427aacb5e508e6a07972c1687fef2a5c9b6d0

Happy Coding 😊

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