From: Sean Hussey <seanhussey@...>
Date: 2005-12-14T01:54:22+09:00
Subject: How to get an MD5 Base64 hash?

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to MD5 passwords for insertion into our LDAP.  I can't seem
to get the right combination of Digest, BD5, and Base64 calls to get a
string that works.

Most passwords end up looking like this:

{MD5}qLdnu5zwk43H9AYD8zmH5Q==

I can manually tack on the {MD5}, of course.  I've tried things along
these lines:

require 'digest/md5'
np = Digest::MD5.new
np << "hello"
require 'base64'

Base64.b64encode(np.to_s)  # => NWQ0MTQwMmFiYzRiMmE3NmI5NzE5ZDkxMTAxN2M1OTI=

Base64.b64encode(np.hash.to_s) # => OTAzMjEy

# From http://rubyforge.org/snippet/detail.php?type=snippet&id=33
h1=[].clear
16.times{ h1.push(np.hexdigest.to_s.slice!(0,2).hex) }
[h1.pack("C*")].pack("m")  # => XV1dXV1dXV1dXV1dXV1dXQ==

None of the resulting strings works.  What am I missing?

Thank you!

Sean