From: Clifford Heath <no.spam@...>
Date: 2007-03-30T13:20:05+09:00
Subject: Re: How to md5 a string?

Bontina Chen 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?

Try:

p my_string.split(//)

and see if you get the same sequence of bytes you expect other
tools to see. Also try "puts my_string.size" to verify the byte
count.