From: Bob Showalter <bob_showalter@...>
Date: 2005-12-14T02:08:09+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get an MD5 Base64 hash?

Sean Hussey wrote:
> 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=

try:

   Base64.b64encode(np.digest)
   => "XUFAKrxLKna5cZ2REBfFkg==\n"

to_s gives you the digest as a string of hex digits.

Documentation definitely lacking in that module ;)