From: Sebastian Kapfer <sebastian_kapfer_NOSPAM@...>
Date: 2002-11-28T06:30:32+09:00
Subject: Re: MD5

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:47:50 +0100, Sebastian Ruhs wrote:

> [code (ruby)]
> dodger@satan:~$ irb
> irb(main):001:0> require 'md5'
> true
> irb(main):002:0> MD5.md5('hello')
> 5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c592
> 
> [shell]
> dodger@satan:~$ echo hello > hello
> dodger@satan:~$ md5sum hello
> b1946ac92492d2347c6235b4d2611184  hello

You forgot about the newline character that 'echo' produces by default.

$ echo -n hello | md5sum
5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c592
$ echo hello | md5sum
b1946ac92492d2347c6235b4d2611184