MD5

Latest revision as of 20:52, 10 January 2012

Author: Matthew Wegner

[edit] Overview

This C# code snippet generates an MD5 hash for an input string. The formatting will match the output of PHP's md5() function.

[edit] C#

Best placed in your static-only utility class.

public  string Md5Sum(string strToEncrypt)
{
	System.Text.UTF8Encoding ue = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
	byte[] bytes = ue.GetBytes(strToEncrypt);
 
	// encrypt bytes
	System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider md5 = new System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
	byte[] hashBytes = md5.ComputeHash(bytes);
 
	// Convert the encrypted bytes back to a string (base 16)
	string hashString = "";
 
	for (int i = 0; i < hashBytes.Length; i++)
	{
		hashString += System.Convert.ToString(hashBytes[i], 16).PadLeft(2, '0');
	}
 
	return hashString.PadLeft(32, '0');
}

[edit] JavaScript

... and just in case anyone was wondering. This is also possible using JavaScript.

To use, name your Javascript file something like "md5functions.js". In your code, access the function using "hash = md5functions.Md5Sum("string");", where the prefix of the function matches the name of the .js file you created for it.

#pragma strict
 
static function Md5Sum(strToEncrypt: String)
{
	var encoding = System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
	var bytes = encoding.GetBytes(strToEncrypt);
 
	// encrypt bytes
	var md5 = System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
	var hashBytes:byte[] = md5.ComputeHash(bytes);
 
	// Convert the encrypted bytes back to a string (base 16)
	var hashString = "";
 
	for (var i = 0; i < hashBytes.Length; i++)
	{
		hashString += System.Convert.ToString(hashBytes[i], 16).PadLeft(2, "0"[0]);
	}
 
	return hashString.PadLeft(32, "0"[0]);
}

You can use SHA1CryptoServiceProvider instead of MD5CryptoServiceProvider if you want to create SHA1 hashes instead of MD5 hashes.

[edit] The server side

As noted above, the above unity snippets will return a hash matching the one returned from PHP's md5() function. In case you are using another language on the server side, here are some examples:

[edit] Perl

<perl>use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex);

my $hashString = md5_hex($stringToHash); </perl>

[edit] PHP

<perl> $hashString = md5($stringToHash); </perl>

[edit] Python

<python>import hashlib

def md5Sum(inputString):

  return hashlib.md5(inputString).hexdigest()

</python>

[edit] Ruby

require 'digest/md5'

def md5Sum(inputString)

   Digest::MD5.hexdigest(inputString)

end

[edit] Shell

Requires that you have the md5sum program installed on the server. <bash>HASH = `echo "$STRING_TO_HASH" | md5sum | cut -f 1 -d' '` </bash>