---
title: "Crypto Actions for Connect"
slug: "crypto-actions"
description: "This is a list of crypto actions that can be performed within Connect."
tags: ["Connect", "Actions"]
updated: 2022-06-02T20:33:47Z
published: 2022-06-02T20:33:47Z
canonical: "help.rapididentity.com/crypto-actions"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.rapididentity.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Crypto Actions

## Crypto Actions

### cryptPassword

Encrypt a password ala Unix crypt.

| Property | Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| password* | expression, variable | password to encrypt |
| algorithm | choice (DES, MD5), text, expression, variable | crypt algorithm (default: MD5 if salt begins with $1$, DES otherwise |
| salt | text, expression, variable | the salt string (default: randomly generated salt) |
| returnVariable | expression, variable | name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |

```actionscript
cryptDES = cryptPassword("password", "DES")
```

### hashBytes

Calculate secure hash for a byte array.

| Property | Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| data* | expression, variable | data to hash |
| algorithm* | choice (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512), text, expression, variable | secure hash algorithm |
| returnType | choice (ASCII-HEX, BASE64, BYTEARRAY), text, expression, variable | return type (default: ASCII-HEX) |
| returnVariable | expression, variable | name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |

```actionscript
md5bytehash = hashBytes(new java.lang.String("password")
.getBytes("UTF-8"), "MD5")
```

### hashString

Calculate secure hash for a string.

| Property | Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| data* | text, expression, variable | data to encode |
| algorithm* | choice (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512), text, expression, variable | secure hash algorithm |
| charset | text, expression, variable | character set encoding for converting characters to bytes(default: UTF-8) |
| returnType | choice (ASCII-HEX, BASE64, BYTEARRAY), text, expression, variable | return type (default: ASCII-HEX) |
| returnVariable | expression, variable | name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |

```actionscript
sha1stringhash = hashString("password","SHA-1", "UTF-8")
```

### macBytes

Calculate Message Authentication Code (MAC) for a byte array.

| Property | Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| key* | text, expression, variable | authentication key |
| data* | expression, variable | data to hash |
| algorithm* | choice (HmacMD5, HmacSHA1, HmacSHA256, HmacSHA384, HmacSHA512), text, expression, variable | MAC algorithm |
| returnType | choice (ASCII-HEX, BASE64, BYTEARRAY), text, expression, variable | return type (default: ASCII-HEX) |
| returnVariable | expression, variable | name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |

```actionscript
hmacSHA1Bytes = macBytes(mySecretKey, new java.lang.String
("Message to be signed").getBytes("UTF-8"), "HmacSHA1", "ASCII-HEX")
```

### macString

Calculate Message Authentication Code (MAC) for a string.

| Property | Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| key* | text, expression, variable | authentication key |
| data* | text, expression, variable | data to encode |
| algorithm* | choice (HmacMD5, HmacSHA1, HmacSHA256, HmacSHA384, HmacSHA512), text, expression, variable | MAC algorithm |
| charset | text, expression, variable | character set encoding for converting characters to bytes(default: UTF-8) |
| returnType | choice (ASCII-HEX, BASE64, BYTEARRAY), text, expression, variable | return type (default: ASCII-HEX) |
| returnVariable | expression, variable | name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |

```actionscript
hmacSHA1String = macString(mySecretKey, "Message to be signed",
"HmacSHA1", "UTF-8", "BASE64")
```