# forge-sha256
**Repository Path**: AddicatedTech/forge-sha256
## Basic Information
- **Project Name**: forge-sha256
- **Description**: SHA-256 implementation extracted from digitalbazaar/forge
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No
## Statistics
- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-31
- **Last Updated**: 2020-12-19
## Categories & Tags
**Categories**: Uncategorized
**Tags**: None
## README
Reason to use this instead of the official forge build:
- drastic size reduction by pruning all unecessary code for SHA-256, from 284 KB to 4.5 KB
- automatically sets right encoding
Code at `forge/*` extracted from [forge's master of July 2015](https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/tree/3b7826f7c2735c42b41b7ceaaadaad570e92d898).
#### Usage
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`forge_sha256()` supports wide characters.