Handlebars Helper Function: sha1

Converts a string to a 160-bit hexadecimal SHA-1 hash.

SHA-1 is a one-way hash and isn’t suitable for securely storing passwords or other sensitive data.

Note

Availability

This helper is available in the Winter ’27 release of Marketing Cloud Next.

1{{sha1 STRING_TO_CONVERT charset=CHARSET}}

Parameter	Type	Description
`STRING_TO_CONVERT`	String	Required. The string to hash.
`charset`	String	The character set to use. Specify as a named parameter. Accepted values are `UTF-8` and `UTF-16`. The default is `UTF-8`.

The function returns the 160-bit SHA-1 hash as a hexadecimal string.

This example hashes a string of text by using UTF-16 character encoding.

1{{sha1 "This is a string of text." charset="UTF-16"}}

The function returns a hash of the string.

11a36453a2f2c1bf17dcc763321e5e35268e5e4c6

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