Hashing

Cryptographic digest and password KDF hashing.

Digest Hashing

Compute a cryptographic digest of an input string. All digest endpoints share the same request and response format.

POST /api/v1/hash/md5

POST /api/v1/hash/sha1

POST /api/v1/hash/sha256

POST /api/v1/hash/sha512

Parameters

Name

In

Required

Description

input

body

yes

The string to hash

Example

curl -X POST https://api.apicrate.io/api/v1/hash/sha256 \
  -H "X-API-Key: $KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"input": "hello world"}'
{
  "algorithm": "sha256",
  "hash": "b94d27b9934d3e08a52e52d7da7dabfac484efe37a5380ee9088f7ace2efcde9"
}

Password KDF Hashing

Derive password hashes using industry-standard key derivation functions.

POST /api/v1/hash/bcrypt

Hash a password with bcrypt.

Parameters

Name

In

Required

Description

input

body

yes

The password to hash

rounds

body

no

Cost factor (default 12, range 4–31)

Example

curl -X POST https://api.apicrate.io/api/v1/hash/bcrypt \
  -H "X-API-Key: $KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"input": "my-secret-password", "rounds": 12}'
{
  "algorithm": "bcrypt",
  "hash": "$2b$12$LJ3m4ys3Lz0YHDtP6Wi0ceB7eat/lnS5z3FGbO2rGkSMo0In5muS6"
}

POST /api/v1/hash/scrypt

Hash a password with scrypt.

Parameters

Name

In

Required

Description

input

body

yes

The password to hash

n

body

no

CPU/memory cost parameter (default 16384)

r

body

no

Block size (default 8)

p

body

no

Parallelism factor (default 1)

Example

curl -X POST https://api.apicrate.io/api/v1/hash/scrypt \
  -H "X-API-Key: $KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"input": "my-secret-password"}'
{
  "algorithm": "scrypt",
  "hash": "$scrypt$ln=14,r=8,p=1$c2FsdHNhbHQ$..."
}

POST /api/v1/hash/argon2id

Hash a password with Argon2id.

Parameters

Name

In

Required

Description

input

body

yes

The password to hash

time_cost

body

no

Number of iterations (default 3)

memory_cost

body

no

Memory usage in KiB (default 65536)

parallelism

body

no

Degree of parallelism (default 4)

Example

curl -X POST https://api.apicrate.io/api/v1/hash/argon2id \
  -H "X-API-Key: $KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"input": "my-secret-password"}'
{
  "algorithm": "argon2id",
  "hash": "$argon2id$v=19$m=65536,t=3,p=4$c2FsdHNhbHQ$..."
}