From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-12-06T07:04:22+09:00
Subject: Re: md5 function in Ruby

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Denys Yakhnenko wrote:

> Hello all:
>
> I've been having trouble with Ruby's md5 function... The following code
> snippet (file attached):
>
> ***begin code***
> require 'digest/md5'
>
> md5=Digest::MD5.hexdigest(File.read("C:\\dc.log"))
> puts md5
> ***end code***
>
> produces completely different hash than any of the other tools I use
> (MD5Win32 or winMD5Sum)... Am I not using the function correctly? Wtf is
> being hashed?

maybe only part of your data ??

try

   require 'digest/md5'

   buf = open("C:\\dc.log","rb"){|f| f.read}
   md5 = Digest::MD5.hexdiges buf
   puts md5

-a
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