From: Wesley J Landaker <wjl@...>
Date: 2004-02-28T03:35:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Calculate the md5 hash of a string

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On Friday 27 February 2004 11:29 am, Dirk Einecke wrote:
> Hi.
>
> How can I calculate the md5 hash of a string (like in PHP -
> http://de2.php.net/manual/en/function.md5.php)? I can't find any
> helpfull documentation about this problem.

irb(main):001:0> require 'md5'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> MD5.digest("test")
=> "\t\217k\315F!\323s\312\336N\203&'\264\366"
irb(main):003:0> MD5.hexdigest("test")
=> "098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6"
irb(main):004:0> md5 = MD5.new
=> d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
irb(main):005:0> md5.update("te")
=> 569ef72642be0fadd711d6a468d68ee1
irb(main):006:0> md5 << "st"
=> 098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6

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Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
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