From: Shuaib Zahda Date: 2010-04-19T06:30:10+09:00 Subject: Re: MD5 16 octet - how to compute? Michael Fellinger wrote: > > MD5 computes a 128bit hash. > If you use MD5.hexdigest, you will get a String representation in base > 16, so it's 32 octets. > You could use MD5.digest instead, which returns a String in base 255, > that means it's 16 octets. Michael thank you very much, you saved me a lot of time. It took me hours to find this out and now my application is working thanks a lot -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.