MD5 function

[sandhya mittal]

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Can anyone tell how to implement MD5 function(NOT algorithm) in Ruby.I ju=
st want to hex MD5 a string.It would be of great help.
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Thank You,
Sandhya

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[1337p337]

Can anyone tell how to implement MD5 function(NOT algorithm) in Ruby.I ju=

st want to hex MD5 a string.It would be of great help.

It's actually pretty easy:
=09require 'digest/md5'
=09Digest::MD5.new 'a random string.' # =3D> 8a6194e053d7a326fe301e902043be=
c1
This gets you a new Digest::MD5 object, which you'll usually .to_s. If all=
you
want is a string, you can do
=09Digest::MD5.hexdigest "Even randomer: #{rand}"
=09# =3D> "c69a37bb0328b781901665c671e1b367"
which just returns a string.

http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/digest/rdoc/index.html has more informati=
on.

 

[Kevin Ballard]

require 'digest/md5'

Digest::MD5.hexdigest('foobar')

 

[Daniel Hobe]

Don't use the digest/* modules. They're slower than the openssl ones
and have given me no end of trouble (mostly Segfaults):

require 'openssl'
OpenSSL:igest::MD5.hexdigest('foo')
=3D> "acbd18db4cc2f85cedef654fccc4a4d8"