From: Wejn <lists+rubytalk@...>
Date: 2003-01-04T03:56:46+09:00
Subject: Re: md5 algorithms

> now it's an MD5 hash for passwords etc, but i can't seem to find a md5
> module for ruby. i've searched on the net for ruby-md5 and also on the
> RAA but it's not listed anywhere.

MD5 implementation is part of standard library...

(1/wejn/wxx) ~$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'digest/md5'
true
irb(main):002:0> Digest::MD5.hexdigest("Some string")
"80f855e731cc0c9aa336ca4d25f990be"

(1/wejn/wxx) ~$ echo -n 'Some string' | md5sum
80f855e731cc0c9aa336ca4d25f990be  -

Hth,
                 W.
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