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SHA512()

SHA512 is an AMPscript function in the encryption & encoding category.

Syntax

SHA512(str, [charset])

Example

%%=SHA512("ampsend")=%%

bb477011c5ebc6ec93c9aa4b6a183971474988aab009074de9356064834e62f93caace79232e67b3cb04f8e5f50d2b3ea0bf7b6c2f46e9459bd504b8f8a2f9b5

Output produced by AmpSend's AMPscript engine (validated against Salesforce's own test corpus) - not a hand-written result.

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Official Salesforce documentation

SHA512 in the official AMPscript reference - or browse the official index of AMPscript functions for platform behavior and edge cases.

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