From: Chris Shea <cmshea@...>
Date: 2007-03-30T12:45:09+09:00
Subject: Re: How to md5 a string?

On Mar 29, 9:13 pm, Bontina Chen <abonc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using hexdigest in Digest/MD5 but got totally different outputs from
> other tools.
> I got some clues that in windows I should read the source I would like
> to hash with binary mode.
> But I have no idea how to transform a string to binary mode.
> Anyone could give my some suggestion?
>
> Thx
>
> ABon
>
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

It might be informative to see some examples what you're getting with
Digest/MD5 vs other tools.  I've used Digest/MD5 with great success on
Windows.

If what you're doing is getting the MD5 of a file, opening it for
reading in binary mode is done like so:

File.new('filename','rb')

Chris