How reproduce sha256 in Javascript?

Question

I actually use an implementation like the dice contract : https://github.com/EOSIO/eos/tree/v1.2.0/contracts/dice

You create a key and his hash with sha256, you first send the hash and then the key to the smart-contract. The contract use the function assert_sha256. I have difficulty for creating the hash with sha256 in Javascript. The encryption has to be the same than the EOS contract else assert_sha256 fail.

I try with the function sha256 of eosjs-ecc and other library without success.

In the dice contract example, they do it in shell like this

echo -n 'abc' | xxd -r -p | sha256sum -b | awk '{print $1}'

I don't understand all the parameters particularly xxd. It translates in binary ?

Thanks

EDIT :

Thanks Don, I spend a lot of time to understand how pass hex to binary, how xxd work, etc... but the answer was just in front of my eyes.

In the documentation of ecc : https://github.com/EOSIO/eosjs-ecc You just have to pass your hex key inside of this code

ecc.sha256(Buffer.from('02208b', 'hex'))

The first time, I probably didn't pass hex data so it's failed.

Answer 1

xxd make a hexdump or do the reverse

-r revert, convert hexdump into binary

-p output 'plain hexdump style'

sha256sum compute and check SHA256 message digest

-b read in binary mode

Here the combination of -r -p options for the xxd command will read plain hexadecimal dumps without line number information and without a particular column layout allowing whitespace and linebreaks.

from the eosjs-ecc documentation:

sha256

Parameters

• data (string | Buffer) always binary, you may need Buffer.from(data, 'hex')

• resultEncoding (optional, default 'hex')

• encoding string result encoding 'hex', 'binary' or 'base64' (optional, default 'hex')

Examples

ecc.sha256('hashme') === '02208b..',
ecc.sha256(Buffer.from('02208b', 'hex')) === '29a23..'

Returns (string | Buffer) Buffer when encoding is null, or string

There are also scripts & packages available for implementing sha256 algo. npm package

Depending on where/when you are trying to implement using javascript, there are some issues/concerns to consider.