MD5digest hash in hex

kee nethery kee at kagi.com
Tue Jul 13 10:56:52 EDT 2004


thank you!
Kee


On Jul 13, 2004, at 7:35 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:

> At 07:12 13/07/2004 -0700, kee nethery wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to duplicate an MD5 hash that gets created by this Perl 
>> code:
>>
>> Perl output samples for various values of $the_string:
>>
>> "just a test" => 25c674ceb1d7e145c01011d697c6e52f
>>
>> When I run this with these strings I get the following values of 
>> theHexMd5Hash
>>
>> "just a test" => 526c47ec1b7d1e540c01116d796c5ef2
>
>
>> Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
>
> You're getting the two hex digits in each byte in the wrong order.
> Instead of
>     put binaryDecode("h*", thisBinaryMd5Hash, theHexMd5Hash) into 
> keeTemp
> you need
>    put binaryDecode("H*", thisBinaryMd5Hash, theHexMd5Hash) into 
> keeTemp
> (i.e. upper-case H* )
>
> -- Alex.
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