From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-02-28T21:33:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Calculate the md5 hash of a string

On Saturday, February 28, 2004, 5:54:45 AM, Dennis wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 03:43:46 +0900, Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> wrote:

>> On Saturday, 28 February 2004 at  3:39:46 +0900, Dennis Ranke wrote:

>>> I can't find any (real) documentation, either, but:
>>
>>  Go to:
>>    http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/
>>
>>  and click on digest in the left-hand frame and then MD5 in
>>  the top center frame.

> Actually I did just that to be able to guess how to calculate the hash and
> it's certainly *much* better than no documentation at all, but it's not
> what I'd call 'real' documentation for the module.

There's ruby/ext/digest/digest.txt in the source distribution, which
I'll fold into the source code one day, whereupon it will appear in
the the above-linked documentation.

Cheers,
Gavin