title: how to generate SHA256 with 32 bytes for a given string?
body: <p>I am looking for javascript code for generating a SHA256 with <strong>32 bytes</strong> for a given string</p>
  <p>this code is suppose to work inside a browser so it should work without any dependencies</p>
  <p>so far I found the following function that gives 64 bytes SHA256:</p>
  <pre><code>/**
  * Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA256)
  * http://www.webtoolkit.info/
  * Original code by Angel Marin, Paul Johnston
  **/
  
  function SHA256(s){
   var chrsz = 8;
   var hexcase = 0;
  
   function safe_add (x, y) {
   var lsw = (x &amp; 0xFFFF) + (y &amp; 0xFFFF);
   var msw = (x &gt;&gt; 16) + (y &gt;&gt; 16) + (lsw &gt;&gt; 16);
   return (msw &lt;&lt; 16) | (lsw &amp; 0xFFFF);
   }
  
   function S (X, n) { return ( X &gt;&gt;&gt; n ) | (X &lt;&lt; (32 - n)); }
   function R (X, n) { return ( X &gt;&gt;&gt; n ); }
   function Ch(x, y, z) { return ((x &amp; y) ^ ((~x) &amp; z)); }
   function Maj(x, y, z) { return ((x &amp; y) ^ (x &amp; z) ^ (y &amp; z)); }
   function Sigma0256(x) { return (S(x, 2) ^ S(x, 13) ^ S(x, 22)); }
   function Sigma1256(x) { return (S(x, 6) ^ S(x, 11) ^ S(x, 25)); }
   function Gamma0256(x) { return (S(x, 7) ^ S(x, 18) ^ R(x, 3)); }
   function Gamma1256(x) { return (S(x, 17) ^ S(x, 19) ^ R(x, 10)); }
  
   function core_sha256 (m, l) {
   var K = new Array(0x428A2F98, 0x71374491, 0xB5C0FBCF, 0xE9B5DBA5, 0x3956C25B, 0x59F111F1, 0x923F82A4, 0xAB1C5ED5, 0xD807AA98, 0x12835B01, 0x243185BE, 0x550C7DC3, 0x72BE5D74, 0x80DEB1FE, 0x9BDC06A7, 0xC19BF174, 0xE49B69C1, 0xEFBE4786, 0xFC19DC6, 0x240CA1CC, 0x2DE92C6F, 0x4A7484AA, 0x5CB0A9DC, 0x76F988DA, 0x983E5152, 0xA831C66D, 0xB00327C8, 0xBF597FC7, 0xC6E00BF3, 0xD5A79147, 0x6CA6351, 0x14292967, 0x27B70A85, 0x2E1B2138, 0x4D2C6DFC, 0x53380D13, 0x650A7354, 0x766A0ABB, 0x81C2C92E, 0x92722C85, 0xA2BFE8A1, 0xA81A664B, 0xC24B8B70, 0xC76C51A3, 0xD192E819, 0xD6990624, 0xF40E3585, 0x106AA070, 0x19A4C116, 0x1E376C08, 0x2748774C, 0x34B0BCB5, 0x391C0CB3, 0x4ED8AA4A, 0x5B9CCA4F, 0x682E6FF3, 0x748F82EE, 0x78A5636F, 0x84C87814, 0x8CC70208, 0x90BEFFFA, 0xA4506CEB, 0xBEF9A3F7, 0xC67178F2);
   var HASH = new Array(0x6A09E667, 0xBB67AE85, 0x3C6EF372, 0xA54FF53A, 0x510E527F, 0x9B05688C, 0x1F83D9AB, 0x5BE0CD19);
   var W = new Array(64);
   var a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j;
   var T1, T2;
  
   m[l &gt;&gt; 5] |= 0x80 &lt;&lt; (24 - l % 32);
   m[((l + 64 &gt;&gt; 9) &lt;&lt; 4) + 15] = l;
  
   for ( var i = 0; i&lt;m.length; i+=16 ) {
   a = HASH[0];
   b = HASH[1];
   c = HASH[2];
   d = HASH[3];
   e = HASH[4];
   f = HASH[5];
   g = HASH[6];
   h = HASH[7];
  
   for ( var j = 0; j&lt;64; j++) {
   if (j &lt; 16) W[j] = m[j + i];
   else W[j] = safe_add(safe_add(safe_add(Gamma1256(W[j - 2]), W[j - 7]), Gamma0256(W[j - 15])), W[j - 16]);
  
   T1 = safe_add(safe_add(safe_add(safe_add(h, Sigma1256(e)), Ch(e, f, g)), K[j]), W[j]);
   T2 = safe_add(Sigma0256(a), Maj(a, b, c));
  
   h = g;
   g = f;
   f = e;
   e = safe_add(d, T1);
   d = c;
   c = b;
   b = a;
   a = safe_add(T1, T2);
   }
  
   HASH[0] = safe_add(a, HASH[0]);
   HASH[1] = safe_add(b, HASH[1]);
   HASH[2] = safe_add(c, HASH[2]);
   HASH[3] = safe_add(d, HASH[3]);
   HASH[4] = safe_add(e, HASH[4]);
   HASH[5] = safe_add(f, HASH[5]);
   HASH[6] = safe_add(g, HASH[6]);
   HASH[7] = safe_add(h, HASH[7]);
   }
   return HASH;
   }
  
   function str2binb (str) {
   var bin = Array();
   var mask = (1 &lt;&lt; chrsz) - 1;
   for(var i = 0; i &lt; str.length * chrsz; i += chrsz) {
   bin[i&gt;&gt;5] |= (str.charCodeAt(i / chrsz) &amp; mask) &lt;&lt; (24 - i % 32);
   }
   return bin;
   }
  
   function Utf8Encode(string) {
   string = string.replace(/\r\n/g,'\n');
   var utftext = '';
  
   for (var n = 0; n &lt; string.length; n++) {
  
   var c = string.charCodeAt(n);
  
   if (c &lt; 128) {
   utftext += String.fromCharCode(c);
   }
   else if((c &gt; 127) &amp;&amp; (c &lt; 2048)) {
   utftext += String.fromCharCode((c &gt;&gt; 6) | 192);
   utftext += String.fromCharCode((c &amp; 63) | 128);
   }
   else {
   utftext += String.fromCharCode((c &gt;&gt; 12) | 224);
   utftext += String.fromCharCode(((c &gt;&gt; 6) &amp; 63) | 128);
   utftext += String.fromCharCode((c &amp; 63) | 128);
   }
  
   }
  
   return utftext;
   }
  
   function binb2hex (binarray) {
   var hex_tab = hexcase ? '0123456789ABCDEF' : '0123456789abcdef';
   var str = '';
   for(var i = 0; i &lt; binarray.length * 4; i++) {
   str += hex_tab.charAt((binarray[i&gt;&gt;2] &gt;&gt; ((3 - i % 4)*8+4)) &amp; 0xF) +
   hex_tab.charAt((binarray[i&gt;&gt;2] &gt;&gt; ((3 - i % 4)*8 )) &amp; 0xF);
   }
   return str;
   }
  
   s = Utf8Encode(s);
   return binb2hex(core_sha256(str2binb(s), s.length * chrsz));
  }
  
  </code></pre>