[HIVE-6108] Introduce Cryptographic hash UDFs

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: UDF
• Assignee: Kostiantyn Kudriavtsev
• Reporter: Kostiantyn Kudriavtsev
• Created: 26/Dec/13 12:15
• Updated: 09/Apr/15 16:22

Description

Introduce new UDF to implement Cryptographic hash algorithms: MD5 and SHA-256 which is already available in Java:

MD5(string) Calculates an MD5 checksum for the string, return HEX representation
SHA256(string) Calculates an SHA-256 checksum for the string, return HEX representation