[TriLUG] MD5 silly question

[Daniel Zhang]

Java MD5 MessageDigest is based on RFC 1321(http://rfc.net/rfc1321.html) 
which "The algorithm takes as input a message of arbitrary length and 
produces as output a 128-bit "fingerprint" or "message digest" of the 
input". In reality, it used a Hex encoding which sometimes patchs "0" 
before small number(0x10). In decimal world it is a 32-character long 
string. If your MD5 output is less than 32-char long, it means that you 
forgot to add "0". Please refer to Brent's email for MD5 java code.

Daniel

Brian Henning wrote:

>-<snip brent's reply about hex encoding>-
>Sorry, should have mentioned I knew that already.  I've already got my java
>program outputting a hex string, for easy storage in a mysql varchar item.
>The unicode vs. ASCII argument sounds feasable, though..
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>Thanks for the insight!
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>~B
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